The Abominable
Snowman
By Jill English
jill@jillenglish.com
Registered: PAu2-841-716
Menlung Glacier 20,000’- Himalayas- as Dusk turns to Darkness
Eight monks make their way up the side of the Menlung Glacier. They chant a prayer song on their journey to a sacred cave atop the mountain.
Suddenly, bright demonic eyes appear from the side of the trail. Large teeth and a drooling mouth open wide and in one swoop all eight monks are swallowed up leaving only the clinking of a golden challis as it falls down the mountain...
Fade Out To Intro. Credits.
Fade in
200 Years Earlier- The day the comet Hit
Mom, Dad, Katie, Nacho, Uncle Jack, Butch and Tassle are playing a game of duck duck goose at the annual winter festival.
O-Chi is very young and he is toddling around chasing a penguin-ball. Many other yeti folk are eating, playing and having fun.
Tassle
Duck...duck...duck...duck...
Nacho
Say, uh, anyday now Tassle.
Katie
(batting her eyes)
Tassle, over here.
Uncle jack
Katie, puh-lease!
The sky begins to darken and the yeti folk think perhaps a storm is coming. Soon, the party comes to a stand still and the yeti are all in a state of caution.
tASSLE
Quiet everybody, stay still...
The camera turns to the trees and the mountainside where heavy winds begin to blow away everything in their path...
On top of the Menlung Glacier is Scragg-- the infamous outcast and evil yeti from the Siachen Glacier in the Western Himalayas. He looks down onto the festivities as he gets ready to push a giant boulder off the cliff so that it will crash onto the party below.
Scragg
(with an evil laugh)
You think you’re so clever. Hmn-hmn-hmn- but you don’t fool me....
The sky is growing louder and louder with what could be thunder but it’s not like any thunder ever heard before.
Yeti have the unique ability to become whatever physical items are around them. They can reshape themselves and blend into the background at will. It is an instinct they develop when they are very young and the act of blending is both an automatic response when danger is present as well as a purposeful act when trying to avoid a situation... As the noise draws nearer, most all of the yeti automatically blend into their environment to camouflage themselves from whatever is coming.
O-Chi falls into a metal trash can salvaged from a human camp. He is too little to blend as he has not mastered the skill yet. With howling winds all around for the garbage can has now flipped over on top of him leaving O-Chi totally covered.
MoM
O-Chi, Where are you O-Chi??? O-Chi baby, where are you??? O-Chi...Ooooooo-Chiiiiiii
Dad (Ace)
(looking all over)
O-Chi, dad wants you??? O-Chi come to daddy??? O-Chi???
(looking up)
...Scragg!!!!!! It’s Scragg!!! Scragg...
A cyclone of wind and rock lift Tassle up and off the ground spinning and whipping him into the air higher and higher.
Uncle jack
Tassle??? Give me your hoof... Tassle????
Katie
Ohhh Tassle... Come back....
NACHO
Say, uh, don’t let him get away- REACH!!!
Butch
He’s gone- Scragg’s gonna get ‘em... It’s over, he’s had it...
Scragg is gleefully watching Tassle be quickly pulled up by dangerous winds... Dad (Ace) jumps up after Tassle trying to grab on to him. He desperately tries to pull him back down to the ground. The yeti are heartsick at seeing their friend Tassle at the mercy of the meanest and cruelest yeti in all the world. Loud sounds, moaning and fighting echo through the rage of the disaster. It appears as if Tassle has been killed by Scragg--
BLAM!!! Bright lights and sparks fly. The Earth blasts all over and around, debris is flying and the noise is almost unbearable.
A comet has hit the Himalayas.
Sparks glisten and stardust flakes fill the air attaching themselves to the snow. The mixture of stardust and snow create an opalescent shiny cement-like ice glue.
The entire yeti population was wiped out when the mixture of comet powder and snow made their bondage permanent ...The yeti that blended themselves into the ground were completely lost into the earth. O-Chi’s parents and the others playing Duck Duck Goose blended into an ice hill but they were only half melted as during the chaos they tried to escape thus freeing some parts of their bodies from the ice hill . O-Chi was left untouched as the metal canister proved to be a reflector to the comet dust and Scragg was joined with the giant boulder that sits atop the Menlung Glacier.
Menlung basin in Winter- present day- Daytime
The landscape is iced over-- incredible panoramic beauty fills the camera as it begins to focus in on one area, faster and faster the camera zooms in, curves around corners, under sharp icicles, from mountain to mountain until it seems to suddenly hit something and crack- smack into the ice- a crack forms. The camera follows the crack up and up until it is staring at the nose of Jeremy and Seaweed peering over a cliff to see if their efforts worked. O-Chi is below in the midst of cracked ice. We can now see that the boys up top pushed giant rocks over the cliff trying to crack the ice into chunks. Quickly O-Chi picks up a block of the cracked ice.
O-Chi
(yelling up to his friends)
C’mon guys- It’s “Bowling for Penguins” and I’m first!
jeremy
You’re always first- I want to get the first whack in this time O-Chi.
Jeremy is riding a snowboard that he delicately crafted from a sheet of ice, down the mountain toward O-Chi. Just as Jeremy reaches the crushed ice chunks for O-Chi launches a chunk of ice into a group of unsuspecting penguins.
O-Chi
Steee-Rike!
jeremy
My turn, my turn.
Seaweed
Oh dude- you really nailed that big one. Now watch this...
Seaweed brings his two front hooves in and then pushes a chunk of ice as hard as he can toward another fat penguin looking over the side of a bluff for his friends.
Seaweed (cont’d)
the last one standing...is ...is down!
Jeremy
Oh ‘Spare me’ Seaweed -- he jumped in before you got him.
Seaweed
Did not!
Jeremy
Did so!
Seaweed
Did not!
Jeremy
Did so!
O-Chi
(interrupting)
Knock it off guys, Jeremy you’re just mad cuz there’s no more penguins left. You really shouldn’t pick on things bigger than you are anyway.
Just think. You knock a penguin down this time, but next time- the penguin Gets You... and your scrawny little 3-inch butt!
Jeremy
(mumbling to himself)
and I sculpted this S-weet red ball just for today’s game....
The three begin to walk toward the area where they knocked over all of the penguins.
Seaweed
Ahwww- check out these skid marks. Dude, we’re gettin’ so good at bowling for penguins- they’re gonna have to name the sport after us!
Jeremy
Uh- ya! and what, call it Sea-Weird-ing? I can see you getting your Espy award now...
(imitating Seaweed)
I would like to thank God for making me a big powerful Ox, and I would like to thank all my fans and I would especially like to thank that penguin for jumping in the water right before I missed him making it look like I had the strike of a lifetime...
Seaweed playfully lunges toward Jeremy trying to give him a wachoono (wah-choo-no). A wachoono is a mean little boy act in which one takes the eyebrows of another and pulls a couple of them out making a naked gap in the brow. Not only does it hurt but it makes a person look ridiculous as well.
Seaweed
Wachoono... Wachoono! Hey, what-choo-know Jeremy is missing an eyebrow???
Jeremy
It’s not funny Seaweed you big fat brat now I’ll never meet a girl!!!
O-Chi
(laughing from all the excitement)
So do you guys wanna play Rock, Paper Scissors?
Seaweed
And watch you lose again? Here’s some feedback O-Chi: Paper. Pay-per! Paper covers rock!
Jeremy
Yeah, it’s no fun playing with you cuz you always pick the rock! You’re predictable!
O-Chi
I am not! Well how about we play pin the tail on the walrus instead?
Pin the tail on the walrus is a game the boys made up in which they take a blow dart and use vertical slivers of icicles to pierce a fox tail onto their target.
Jeremy
Um, Uh, well O-Chi, I kinda lost the tail.
O-Chi
(looking shocked)
You lost the tail? The fox tail we almost died trying to get...
Jeremy
That would be the tail.
O-Chi
(looking shocked)
The brown and white tail we went to 20-THOU-sand feet to get...
Jeremy
Yup, that would be the tail.
O-Chi
(still shocked)
The tail we swore to only use when...
Jeremy
Same tail.
As the group rounds the corner they see an especially fat walrus and Seaweed salivates at the chance to pin the tail on it.
Seaweed
Ohhh, Jeremy, Jeremy, Jeremy- what fun we could be having with that big...fat... walrus...
The boys don’t see Adligo off to the side of a tree. The fat walrus notices the boys and scurries off as fast as he can...
Adligo
(opening just one eye)
Looking for this boys?
Adligo pulls the fox tail from his pocket and flashes it in front of the guys.
Adligo (cont’d)
(still in meditation)
Ohmmmmm. Ohmmmmmmmmm-- A plant can’t live without roots, children- your soul is your root!
(Adligo stares at O-Chi)
no matter how those you love show up in your life
(then Adligo stares at Seaweed)
whether you have realized your potential or not--
(now Adligo stares at Jeremy)
and even if you’re extinct--
(Adligo’s eyes closed now)
your soul is your root, boys, your soul is your root-- Ohmmmm. Ohmmmmmm.
The boys rush off as fast as they can.
Jeremy
What a dork! ...and I’m not extinct!
(having a revelation)
If I were extinct, then I wouldn’t be here!
O-Chi
Dude! Those spiritual weirdos are seriously annoying-- always humming out of tune and talking in circles. Does anybody EVER understand ‘em?
(O-Chi now imitates Adligo)
Children, The circle of the spiritual realm balanced by the the root of your soul blended with the square root of the hypotenuse is the celestial answer for...
(reshaping to look like a beauty queen)
...World Peace!
Seaweed
(brows narrowed in thought)
I kinda like the old geezer. Something about him...makes me...feel...safe?
O-Chi
Just grow some roots Seaweed...That’s the answer to life- roots baby. It’s all about the roots!
Suddenly, a patch of snow begins to move from across the path as if something is hiding. The boys draw closer and closer, whisking through the snow until- Angelique appears. She is gorgeous and sexy and a bit startled but very much in control. Jeremy is instantly struck by love at first sight!!!
Angelique
(batting her eyes)
I was just looking for my roots boys.
Seaweed
Owwwwe, not you too??? You’re not gonna start chanting on us are ya?
Angelique
(sexy, breathy and disgusted)
My Rhododendron roots-- ya know, Lunch?
O-Chi
(looking panicked)
LUNCH- Ahwww Yeti, I forgot lunch! C’mon guys, we gotta head for The Hill’s...
Fade TO:
Alka River- Daytime
The boys have fishing poles hidden in a tree by the river. They often times fly fish here even though they have to pass right by Scragg's ravine to get to Alka River. They made a special trail on top of the ravine that has been impossible for Scragg to reach. For the most part Scragg is stuck in the ravine because the weight of the boulder he’s attached to is so great that his feet can hardly bear the load. He does not have use of his legs so walking around is more like scooting very slowly for Scragg.
sEAWEED
I love fly fishing. Hey Och, I’ll do the fishing if you want to go pick the berries.
O-CHI
Naw, I have some berries left over from yesterday so we can just fish today.
JEREMY
(looking guilty)
Uh, O-Chi, about those berries. Where were they?
O-CHI
At the clubhouse- WHY???
JEREMY
Because they were kinda calling my name in the middle of the night... “Jeremy we’re here. Right here on the table all fat and juicy and ready for you to come eat us,” so I kinda ate ’em.
O-CHI
You kinda WHAT???
JEREMY
They were Berry Good.
O-CHI
Piddle-ee-Dee Jeremy!
JEREMY
O-Chi, that’s the secret word. You just said the secret word. I can’t believe You just said the secret yeti word for BLEND and I can't even blend dummy.
O-CHI
I know! I wish you could. Then I wouldn’t have to look at you right now!
Seaweed
Dang Jeremy, you know how long it took to pick those yesterday? Oh, Oh, I got one.
JEREMY
You caught a berry...?
O-CHI
No doofus he caught a trout.
JEREMY
I knew that! Hey I saw a bush of giant berries on the way here. I’ll go get ‘em right now and by the time you have the fish I’ll have the berries and I’ll meet you at The Hill...
O-Chi and Seaweed were preoccupied with the big trout that Seaweed was in the process of catching and they didn’t pay much attention to Jeremy.
O-CHI
Oh Yeti, this fish is huge.
Seaweed
Yeah, it’s giant.
O-Chi and Seaweed snap back to reality when seaweed says the word Giant as they both echo in their minds Jeremy saying he saw a Giant berry bush...
SEAWEED (cont’d)
Giant!
O-CHI
Giant!
SEAWEED (cont’d)
Did Jeremy say Giant berries???...
O-Chi and Seaweed look at each other in a panic...
SEAWEED (cont’d)
Scragg’s Ravine!
O-CHI
Scragg’s Ravine!
Throwing the giant trout into a basket with the other fish they have caught, O-Chi and Seaweed rush off to the ravine praying that it’s not too late for Jeremy. As they reach the ravine they cautiously approach the edge...
SEAWEED
Do you have that little mirror you usually carry with you Och?
O-CHI
Uh, Yeah, why...
SEAWEED
Just give it to me...
O-CHI
Here... it’s awfully quiet.
SEAWEED
Over there... I see the berry bush Jeremy was talking about... but no Jeremy!
O-CHI
Oh, yeti... Oh, yeti, this is not good. Do you see Scragg?
BLAM- Suddenly Scragg who had been well camouflaged takes a lunge at the berry bush but his boulder proves just too heavy for him to get a good enough pounce that high up the ravine wall. Jeremy scurries from the bush and starts doing his crazy hop. Berries are flying everywhere as Scragg has his mouth wide open and his piercing teeth ready.
Seaweed takes the mirror and begins reflecting sunlight into Scragg's face blinding him from being able to pursue Jeremy.
O-CHI (cont’d)
What’s the matter Scragg? Can’t get your anchor butt up the mountain?
ScRAGG
I have a rock body you ignorant snowbeast- and soon, very soon, I am going to crush you! ...and your little rat too...
Scragg slinks back to the bottom of the ravine where he has captured some bunnies for dinner. Scragg lures many unsuspecting creatures with a beautiful trail he carved into his ravine. It’s lined with the most luscious shrubbery and berries. Animals and sometimes even humans that don’t know about Scragg fall prey to him on that very trail everyday.
The boys look on as Scragg torments his dinner before eating them. Then he drinks from a golden challis left behind by some of his human victims.
JereMY
(walks up catching his breath)
We’ve got berries!
O-Chi
(annoyed)
That was stooo-pid Jeremy.
Seaweed
You scared us really bad- what were you thinking???
JEREMY
I wasn’t! I like to keep the thinking to you guys but every now and then I get a great idea and I go with it. I’m artistic. That’s what artists do- they go with their impulses!
Jeremy throws a berry at O-Chi leaving a purple stain on his chest.
JEREMY
Purple nurple!
O-Chi
(still annoyed)
Better be careful Jeremy.
Now let’s go with lunch before the Hill’s have a tizzy...
Menlung Forest 19,500’- Daytime
Camera is zoomed in on a flopping fish on top of a platter carried by O-Chi. There are actually many fish on the platter that is garnished with berries. O-Chi timidly approaches the Hill where his family and friends were permanently melted and stuck to nearly 200 years before.
O-Chi
(looking upbeat)
On the menu today is Fish. Or, for those with a more delicate pallet we have, FISH. And last but not least for those of you craving the new, the exciting and the different, da-ta-da... Fish!
Uncle jack
(looking at his belly)
What, are you trying to starve us?
Uncle Jack reshapes his pot belly into an Ethiopian looking starved belly. While Butch shapes the letter “L” for the word Loser on his forehead.
butch
He forgot us- he always forgets us- we’re
just nothing-- unworthy, half-melts!
Moms sunglasses reshape into her real eyes.
MOM
(interrupting)
Butch- you just hush now. And Uncle Jack you are certainly not gonna starve! ...Now let me look at my boy. Come closer O-Chi you adorable creature. Come give your momma a big smoochy kiss.
O-Chi
(embarrassed and whispering)
Uh, mom the guys.
O-Chi gives his mom a peck on the cheek but then quickly signals toward his friends with his eyebrows while giving his mom the “shut up” look.
O-Chi (cont’d)
They can hear you.
MOM
(with a welcoming smile)
Oh, hello Seaweed, Jeremy.
Seaweed
(like he’s innocent)
Hi Mama Hill- catching some rays today?
Nacho
Say, uh, What’s up with Jeremy?
O-Chi
(making fun)
He’s in love- ...with a muskrat.
Jeremy
(Using sign language)
She’s an ermine, moron- an Errr-Mine!!!
Jeremy (cont’d)
and I don’t care if you are 8,000 times
bigger you gotta admit she’s HOTSY TOTSY!
Katie
(all giggly)
Awe, is that word back again? Hotsy Totsy! All the snowboys used to call ME that.
MOM
(disgusted)
uhg, that’s not all they called you...
Dad
(with a kind sigh)
Now mama, we all have to share this hill.
Nacho
(talking with his mouth full)
Say, uh, O-Chi this is pretty good. Say, uh, did’ya get it from Lake Tippin?
The Hill’s
(collectively they inquire)
Yeah, where did you find fish this big?
O-Chi
(hesitating to answer then telling a lie)
Ummm, yeah Lake Tippin, um hmmn- they were really biting today.
Dad
(contemplating)
Lake Tippin doesn’t have rainbow trout!
O-Chi
Hmmn- what???
Dad
(serious tone)
Lake Tippin doesn’t have rainbow trout!
uncle jack
No, but the Alka River does though. Hey Ace, we’ve been there before. Remember that time we took your dads sled and crashed into...
Dad
(cutting Uncle Jack off)
YES, we have been there but O-Chi you know that’s too far to go! Why would you put yourself in harms way and pass right through Scragg’s ravine?
Katie
Scragg? Now there’s an ugly beast! You know, he could be kinda cute if he would just see an orthodontist.
MOM
(upset)
You passed by Scragg? Boys, do you want to get yourselves killed? You know he has no feelings for anyone or anything- he is an awful Yeti- just an awful yeti!
O-Chi
I’m not afraid of him Mom. He’s attached to a giant boulder. He can't even get up the side of a snow drift let alone the ravine wall.
Dad
This is no laughing matter and you aren’t giving him enough credit. He is determined to destroy us.
O-Chi
(speaking under his breath)
Well at least someone is determined around here.
Dad
What? Uh, what was that O-Chi???
O-Chi
I said, at least ...if we pushed Scragg over the Menlung cliff... it would really be a crack up!
SEAWEED
(laughing!)
Crack up..I get it. Little Scragg pieces ...cracked, all over.
Jeremy
Yeah, like- Crack his butt.
O-Chi
(laughing really hard)
His butt is already cracked!
Dad
I’m serious! Listen guys, he’s a killer. He wants to control the yeti world. Before the comet hit Scragg was trying to kill King Sleox. Tassle came from the Siachen Glacier to warn us of Scragg's plan to take over the Menlung and use it as his headquarters.
Seaweed
(suddenly serious)
My dad? My dad worked for the king?
MoM
He did Seaweed! Your dad came every year bringing news from the king. I remember the first time we met you. Awe, you were the cutest little Ox I’ve ever seen!
KaTIE
I agree with that! You were the cutest little ox ever.
SEAWEED
Well if my dad worked for the King then why hasn’t anyone from the palace come to get me?
DAD
Nobody has come since the comet hit Seaweed. We just pray the kingdom is not lost forever. One thing is certain though- Scragg is out to get us. I am sure he’s devising a way to get free as we speak. Even a boulder won’t stop him! So, please boys, don’t go near him. If I could force you to stay away then believe me I would. But I can’t. I am helpless!
JerEMY
(smirking and enjoying his pun)
You’re really stuck between a rock and a hard place Mr. H., hehehe
O-CHI
(frustrated and Not laughing)
You’re not helpless Dad- you just like to act that way! You gave up 200 years ago and you’ve all been having one big pity party ever since!
We ask you questions about the past and you avoid the answers. Seaweed doesn’t know what his dad did for the king or if he has any other family out there and all you can say is- “oooh stay away from Scragg!” We may not be adults but- dang! At least we know how to live in spite of our less than perfect situation!
SONG Happiness is A Choice
O-Chi grabs his ice board and races away with Jeremy and Seaweed straggling behind. As they scurry off Jeremy takes a snow ramp making a fabulous spin in the air.
SEAWEED
Wow Jeremy- you looked like Tiny Hawks!
FADE TO:
The Clubhouse- late afternoon
O-Chi, Seaweed and Jeremy have a really cool club house they burrowed into the side of the mountain. It is equipped with all kinds of human stuff like a can opener, matches, a three legged chair, an few inflatable mattresses, night stands and some blankets. There is also all kinds of art (paintings and sculptures) that Jeremy made. This humble dwelling is their home but they don’t like to admit it so they call it The Club House.
SEAWEED
Do you think they’re hiding something about my family?
O-CHI
I don’t think they even care enough to hide something. All they care about is pouting about that Hill strapped to their butt.
JEREMY
At least you have a family O-Chi. I don’t know why you can’t just accept them the way they are. I would give my snow board up forever to have parents, or any family at all!
O-CHI
(feeling attacked and guilty)
They aren’t parents- I’m the parent!
JEREMY
What about Uncle Jack, Nacho, Katie and Butch- they love you!
o-CHI
(reshaping his body to imitate each)
Oh ya... Katie- “he’s cute, he loved Me back in the day, Oh what a gorgeous man, I used to be beautiful...” and Nacho- “Say-uh, say uh, say uh do you think I have a brain of my own?...” and then there’s Butch- ”That’ll never happen, you won’t ever make it, My name is Butch and I hate everything, I am a miserable negative yeti!” Uncle Jack could be kinda cool but he doesn’t do anything to Live his life either- he’s a mindless follower!
All of them are just sad, pathetic victims of that stupid comet- they think life ended when they melted.
SEAWEED
I don’t remember a whole lot about my dad O-Chi but there was something he used to say to me. He used to tell me... small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events but great minds discuss IDEAS!
O-CHI
Are you saying I have a small mind Ox-Brain?
SEAWEED
No, I’m just saying that we spend an awful lot of time being small minded when we could be thinking up an idea to get your family free or an idea to get rid of Scragg.
JEREMY
Yeah, or an idea about how I can see that sweet little ermine again???
O-CHI
(jumping on the IDEA bandwagon)
I’ll bet Adligo could think of a way to get The Hill’s free. He’s the smartest guy I’ve ever met. He’ll know what to do.
SEAWEED
Now you’re talking O-Chi, let’s go find Adligo.
JEREMY
Right now? But it’s going to be dark in a... ...a minute.
O-CHI
(interrupting)
Are you chicken Jeremy?
JEREMY
No, I am NOT chicken- I’m just looking out for you guys- you can’t snowboard as well as I can and especially in the dark!!!
SEAWEED
(sarcastically)
OK Jeremy, you want to look out for us so bad then you can be the body guard...
O-Chi
Oh, I feel safe now!
The boys grab their snowboards and head off to find Adligo.
FADE TO:
Walrus Bay- Dusk
The sky is getting dark and the boys are getting kind of spooked by the unfamiliar terrain while on their way to Walrus Bay.
O-Chi
I see Walrus Bay ahead- we’ll find Adligo there.
As they near the city they are spotted by a penguin slave with a bandaged up leg- the penguin sees the boys-gets a sinister look and takes a rock and hurls it down the ice toward them.
Penguin
Heee-Yahhh!
jeremy
Watch Out guys....
Jeremy, who is a hopping mouse after all, hops over the rock letting it hit O-Chi smack in the toe.
O-Chi
OOOWWWah- you little toe breaker.
Penguin
I “toe’ed” you! hehehe... guess that piggy won’t be going to the market for awhile...hehehe
O-Chi
(holding his toe in pain)
You’re such a card I think We’ll DECK YOU!
jeremy
(imitating & quoting O-Chi)
Just think. You knock a penguin down this time, but next time- the penguin Gets You... and your giant frozen 3 inch... toe! ..I’m such a joker...
Seaweed starts after the penguin with O-Chi hobbling behind and Jeremy reluctantly following. Suddenly, a giant walrus comes from a door in the city and stops the boys cold in their tracks.
Giant Walrus
You got business with my bird?
Jeremy
(timidly)
No Sir, we don’t Sir, Uh we were just looking for my glasses sir- they just seemed to have jumped right off of my face..
Seaweed
No we don’t. Mr. Walrus
Giant Walrus
Good thing- I would’ve had to dot your eye for messing with the bird- I woulda had to bop you in the bean for messin with my slave bird.. I woulda had to....
O-Chi
We don’t want any trouble Mister
Giant Walrus
Trouble you say? You don’t want trouble? Well I think you might have it anyway...
By now several thug-looking walruses have gathered around the boys. Seaweed and O-Chi stand tall in the face of trouble while Jeremy gets nervous and starts to do his crazy hop...the walruses start to laugh.
SONG The Trouble with Trouble
Seaweed takes a light-hearted approach to the song The Trouble with Trouble as he explains that TROUBLE is not a winning situation for anyone. As the song ends the boys have their snowboards in hand and they are ready to make their escape...The walruses were amused by the song and even though they are serious thugs they let the boys go... The boys quickly rush off including O-Chi and his ailing toe...
O-Chi
Adligo works over here,...I think
Looking around all the boys can see are walruses, hundreds upon hundreds of them working at the fish market assembly line on the river...
Seaweed
O-Chi, they-a all look alike...
Jeremy
Look for the one with the tail.
O-Chi
That’s right Jeremy! He has our tail.
Seaweed
OK, no problem, a brown walrus with a brown tail...
Jeremy
A brown, FUZZY tail...
Seaweed
Great- that narrows it down...
Jeremy
Is that him?...no forget it- it’s just a big brown fuzzy-- MONSTER...
Out from the Walrus assembly line runs a large Boxer dog.
O-Chi
MONSTER
Seaweed
MONSTER
The boys are scared to death- as they catch their breath they can hear a human calling the monster Lipo.
Human
C’mon Lipo. C’mon girl
Jeremy
Lipo? What kinda name is Lipo? Sounds like some kind of human operation where they knock you out and suck the juicy fat out of ya!
O-Chi has now blended himself into a bench so the human will not see him. A second human was talking to the one with the monster. They part ways and the man with the dog heads away from the boys while the second human walks right by them. Seaweed nervously decides to sit down on the bench unaware that O-Chi has blended with it. O-Chi’s eyes get bigger and bigger as he sees Seaweeds butt growing closer...
O-Chi
No...Seaweed... Nooooo
O-Chi’s voice is squelched out by the ox that now sits on his head.
Seaweed
Where’d O-Chi go?
Jeremy
He probably blended...to avoid the human.
(Talking under his breath now)
O-Chi?? Where’d ya go Och. Hey-a O-Chi???
O-Chi
MMMMM RRRRTT HHRRRR- MMVVVV YYYRRRR BBTTT
Seaweed
You hear somethin?
Jeremy
I don’t hear anything, you hear something?
Seaweed
(looking down at his stomach)
It’s my stomach growling- My stomach starts talking out loud when I get nervous... I can fix that...
Seaweed bucks up and pushes out a silent fart.
Jeremy
Oh Dang- Seaweed, an SBD...
Suddenly a very blue faced O-Chi falls to the ground underneath the bench with a loud thud. The startled human looks over and sees a commotion- then he double-takes and looks away.
Human
Couldn’t be???? They don’t exist!
By now O-Chi has safely blended with a very tall street light- his face proudly up above all sitting distance. The human drives away and the boys are back on their quest to find Adligo.
O-Chi
(totally grossed out)
Now I know how you got your name.. Seaweed!
FADE TO:
WalRUS BAY Merchant Square- Darker side of dusk
Coming up the street is a group of walruses humming and chanting the same sorry tune Adligo chants...
Seaweed
Follow the bellowing walruses- they’ll lead us to Adligo.
The boys follow the group quite a distance through the city. They pass several merchant shops when O-Chi finally stops because he can’t walk any longer.
O-Chi
(in pain)
My toe has gotta be broken- I just need to rest it for a minute, ..guys...what, it’s not funny
Seaweed and Jeremy are laughing very hard at O-Chi
Jeremy
Oh, does your wittle toe have an Ouchi O-Chi?
There is a merchant shop with a sign overhead that reads: Dr. P. Bear with a picture of a polar bear wearing a stethoscope...
Seaweed
(Looking up at the shops)
There’s a doctor’s office...
Jeremy
Maybe he can give you a band aid for your boo boo???
O-Chi
I hate doctors...uhg! ...Just look inside and see if he has beady eyes...
Seaweed and Jeremy peek through the office window. The doctor is a very happy, bubbly, effeminate polar bear- hard at work casting a walruses broken flipper. The can only see him but they can’t hear him through the window...
Seaweed
He looks nice...
Jeremy
Sometimes you Really frighten me Seaweed- he looks a little too nice!
O-Chi
Too nice? a doctor, how can that be...
O-Chi bursts into the office now in the full presence of Dr. P. Bear. Right behind O-Chi walks in a gorgeous female Polar Bear but O-Chi is unaware of here presence.
Dr. P. Bear
(very dramatic & with a lisp)
Oh Excuse me Walrus but a very tall white and sexy patient just came through my door!
The doctor makes a dramatic sexy wink and blows a kiss toward the door. O-Chi thinks the doctor is looking at him but he is actually flirting with his wife that is still standing behind O-Chi.
DR. P. Bear
May “I” be of service to you sir?
O-Chi
(shocked by the Doctor’s personality)
Ummm, I think my toe is broken??
DR. P. Bear
Well you just bring that little devil over to my table and we’ll have ourselves a little looksy-lou.
Still outside of the window looking in at O-Chi are Seaweed and Jeremy. Inside the doctor’s office the doctor keeps making little love gestures to his wife but from the window it very much looks to the guys like their friend O-Chi is in trouble as they don’t see Mrs. Bear either...
Seaweed
He’s got O-Chi on the table now.
Jeremy
I can see that Seaweed.
Seaweed
He’s blowing kisses at O-Chi now.
Jeremy
I can see that too Seaweed.
Inside the office O-Chi grows very nervous and uncomfortable with the doctor’s flirting.
O-Chi
So how long have you been blowing kisses-- err I, I, I mean doctoring fishes, No, Uh, err I...
DR. P. Bear
(interrupting)
I can’t help myself I am just so in love- I want to scream it to the whole world: I’m in Love...
The boys outside the window hear the doctor yell, “I’m in Love...” and it has them both really riled up now.
Jeremy
That’s it, we gotta do something- we gotta save our friend...
Seaweed
Yeah, we gotta go in there and rescue our buddy, our good buddy, our really good buddy...
Jeremy
(interrupting)
Uh, Seaweed, you’re scaring me again
Inside the office the doctor is finishing up the bandaging process on O-Chi’s toe.
DR. P. Bear
(smiling)
Now how’s that Big Guy?
O-Chi
Ummm, fine, I guess. How long will it hurt?
DR. P. Bear
(looking at his wife)
It won’t hurt if you baby-waby it and give it all kinds of love and attention... Trust me I am an expert at giving attention.
O-Chi
Alrighty then-- Whoa-Kay, how much do I owe you?
DR. P. Bear
Well since it’s after hours... and I stayed late to take care of you-- how about a... happy hug?
The doctor starts walking toward O-Chi interfering with O-Chi’s personal space- arms wide open...
DR. P. Bear
A happy hug?
SONG The Happy Hug Song
Dr. P. Bear delivers this song like a Tony Award Winning Broadway play- the Happy Hug song is all about how it’s not money that matters but people that are important. To happily give a genuine hug is the remedy for all the worlds ills...
As the song ends, O-Chi bolts for the door and runs into Mrs. P. Bear.
DR. P. Bear
OK, OK- I don’t blame you, give my wife the happy hug instead?
O-Chi
Your wife????
DR. P. Bear
Don’t be jealous-- she's all mine!!! My little fuzzy-wuzzy bear. Hey, that would make a good poem,fuzzy-wuzzy, fuzzy-wuzzy was a bear-- hmmn, catchy.
Walking backwards out the door O-Chi quickly hugs Mrs. P. Bear and makes his exit.
DR. P. Bear
Awwww, Happy Hug everyone- it’s Happy Hug time!
O-Chi
WELL, OK folks thank you for the help, thanks, thanks again now...and buh-bye!
DR. P. Bear
(looking at his wife)
Nervous fellow!
O-Chi exits the doctors office just as Seaweed and Jeremy are getting ready to storm in all Rambo’ed out.
Seaweed
We were coming to rescue ya Och.
Jeremy
Yeah, your doctor looked Bi-Polar!
O-Chi
(laughing)
He wasn’t Bi-Polar.
Jeremy
Y-yeah, That’s what they all say....
Seaweed
He sure looked like a bi-polar bear from the window...
O-Chi
(teasing now)
He was very expensive-- I had to pay him with....... a “Happy Hug”
Jeremy
Ohh, No more O-Chi- Please, there are just some things my ears don’t need to hear...
O-Chi
So I opened my arms wide and just hugged and squeezed...his wife!
Jeremy
Uh,Uhg! Oh--his wife??? We didn’t see a wife in there.
O-Chi
She was there-
Jeremy
We didn’t see a wife in there- did you see a wife Seaweed?
Seaweed
Uh Yeah sure Jeremy,.. duh! what do you think-- I was just trying to rescue him from the doctors wife- we didn’t need any trouble now- did we???
Suddenly two walruses are walking up the road toward the boys. Deep in conversation the walruses did not spot O-Chi but he and the other boys quickly duck into an alley to hide from them. Angelique is secretly following along behind the walruses and she does see the boys.
TalL Thug Walrus
The last day of the full moon is when the comet will hit.
Short Thug Walrus
And are your troops ready to capture enough stardust to free Scragg and his tribe?
TalL THUG Walrus
(sinister laugh)
We will have enough stardust to free the whole Yeti nation if we want...
Short thug Walrus
Shhhh... don’t say that- we are being paid handsomely by Scragg to free his tribe- and if we help him destroy the others then he will give us his golden temple on the Siachen glacier.
The camera cuts back to the boys hidden in the alley as the two walruses are walking by...
Jeremy
Stupid walruses- Scragg doesn’t have a golden temple- he’s a piddly cave dweller- a roughian... Poor White Yeti!
O-CHI
The stardust... why didn’t I think of that! There’s magic in the stardust that melted my family and all the others.. And it’s the stardust that will free them. Guys we’ve got to get the stardust before the walruses get it, before they free Scragg!
Seaweed
Look there’s Adligo and he’s not meditating... maybe we can have a real conversation with him now???
JEREMY
None of the Ooommmm stuff, GOOD!
Seaweed
He’s with his human friend- the one who’s always looking at the stars and watching them through all of that fancy equipment.
I’ll bet he will know Exactly when the comet is coming back, we can get there before Scragg's army of walruses!
O-CHI
Human??? Uhg, I am not going over there!
O-Chi won’t leave the safety of the alley because a human is in sight but Seaweed and Jeremy rush out to get Adligo and bring him over to O-Chi. Jeremy makes his approach by hopping wildly over next to the human and Adligo- the crazier he hops the more the human begins to giggle...
Human
Is this a friend of yours Adligo?
ADLIGO
(kindly agreeing)
Yes, this is my friend Jeremy. And this is Seaweed...
HUMAN
(looking fascinated)
Very nice to meet you Seaweed!
Adligo
What are you boys up to? and where’s the third musketeer today?
JEREMY
Musketeer? Mmmn those are good. Do you have one?
SEAWEED
Not the candy bar Jeremy- the movie.
JEREMY
There’s a movie about candy bars?
SEAWEED
No, a story that became a movie...Oh, forget it!!!
HUMAN
Hello boys... my name is Leo
JerEMY
Hi.
Seaweed
Hi Leo.
ADLIGO
It’s after dark shouldn’t you boys be home now?
SEAWEED
Um, yeah but we were looking for you...
ADLIGO
For me? I am not in the mood for pin the tail on the walrus tonight boys...
SEAWEED
No, no that’s not it but, umm, could we talk to you in private for a minute...
ADLIGO
Excuse me for a minute Leo, I’ll be right back...
Human (LEo)
No problem Addy- I’ll play with Lipo till you come back...
They walk over to the alley where O-Chi is hiding and engage Adligo into private conversation... Leo meanwhile observes Seaweed closely- watching him walk and talk as if Seaweed is special to him. On the other side of the street Angelique has hidden herself from view behind a flower pot in front of a basket store.
SEAWEED
Here’s our third musketeer
JEREMY
Where??? You have a musketeer and you aren’t sharing???
SEAWEED
Be quiet Jeremy. I don’t have a candy bar!
O-Chi
(whispering and talking as fast as he can)
Adligo- I know how to free my family, our friends! I know how to free all the yeti! Will you help us? We need your help, pleeease???
ADLIGO
Slow down, slow down, what do you mean you know how to free the yeti?
JEREMY
The stardust...
SEAWEED
Be quiet Jeremy. Let O-Chi talk.
ADLIGO
Stardust? What about the stardust?
O-CHI
...something happened when the stardust mixed with the snow 200 years ago. There’s something about the stardust... that melted the yeti- but my parents are only half melted and they can feel and move and think and talk and so...
SEAWEED
(helping O-Chi to focus)
The stardust O-Chi...
O-CHI
Sooo, the stardust from the comet glued them to the hill that they are stuck to- if another comet came and we sprinkled stardust on them then they could get free...if they don’t blend when the stardust hits them then they won’t melt...
ADLIGO
Very clever guys...and you thought of this theory all on your own?
O-CHI
(winking at his friends)
Yup- we thought of it- do you think it’ll work? Do you think the yeti can be free again?
ADLIGO
(looking at Leo)
I have a friend... the human
JEREMY
(interrupting)
Leo? Great guy- good people- not too sure about his Lipo-monster though, but I like him...
SEAWEED
Jeremy!!! SSSSHHHhhhhh, Be quiet ...
Jeremy looks embarrassed and he slumps off, while feeling his eyebrow, to the steps of the basket shop where Angelique is hiding behind the flower pot next to the door.
JEREMY
(walking away in shame)
“Be quiet Jeremy, Jeremy Hushhhh” Uhg, what do they think I am- a little Tit mouse? ...
(looking at the basket shop sign)
I’m a basket case! ...all I want is a wife and 48 children ...with the gorgeous Angelique...
Angelique’s eyes open wide and she gulps really loud and then realizes she could be heard or even worse, seen, so she quickly pulls herself together and gets really quiet. Jeremy looks behind him but he is too depressed to get up so he sits there with his elbow on his knee and his chin in his hand. The camera goes back to Adligo and Seaweed.
ADLIGO
(interrupting)
The human...he’s a scientist- an astronomer! He knows about the comet. And it is coming back- it’s coming soon boys. O-Chi he’s a good man and I trust him. I’d give my life for him if I had to. It would be safe for you to meet him.
Seaweed and O-Chi are shocked that Adligo would even suggest such a thing- humans can NEVER meet yeti- it’s in the yeti code...and breaking the code is unheard of! Meanwhile Jeremy sniffs in the air as if he senses that something (perhaps Angelique) is nearby. He shakes his head and says “Nah” and heads back to the conversation with Adligo, O-Chi and Seaweed.
SEAWEED
He can’t talk to a human. The yeti code forbids it!!!
I’ll be the point ox on this relationship! Leo can deal with me. If O-Chi wants to meet him later then we can arrange it.
O-CHI
I like that idea Adligo. I don’t want to talk to any humans. They scare me.
ADLIGO
I understand O-Chi and it’s OK.
(looking at Seaweed)
Why don’t you boys go home for tonight. Leo and I will meet you tomorrow at the lake by your clubhouse, 6 AM?
JEREMY
(walking into the conversation)
6am? I’m a night mouse! I don’t do 6 am!
SEAWEED
How about Noon? OK?
ADLIGO
I’ll be there.
Seaweed and Jeremy wave goodbye to Adligo and Leo. Leo winks at Seaweed and smiles a very warm smile. The boys turn away and snowboard home with O-Chi close behind as he could only leave the alley once the coast was clear. Angelique is seen walking with Adligo and Leo. As the scene fades out.
AnGELIQUE
Oh Yeti, this really complicates things?
ADLIGO
They might be of some use to us...
fADE TO:
the Clubhouse- Morning
It’s a very brisk morning and Jeremy is snoring away. Seaweed and O-Chi are awake and nervous.
O-CHI
Do you think we can trust Adligo?
SEAWEED
I was wondering the same thing Och. I always used to think we could trust him.
O-CHI
He’s always giving us advice and bits of wisdom- like he cares about us.
SEAWEED
He got us out of trouble the time we pinned that walrus by Alka River.
O-CHI
Yeah, there were at least 20 walruses coming after us that day. Was I glad to see him then.
SEAWEED
It just stinks that he has to be friends with that human. It makes this whole thing so complicated....
O-CHI
It’s not complicated!
All we have to do is find out when the comet is coming back- that’s it.
What day and what time???
SEAWEED
I don’t think that’s going to be the hard part. It’s going to be pretty obvious when the comet hits.
How are we going to beat that pack of wild walruses to the stardust? Even if we get there first I know they aren’t going to be scared of ...Jeremy!
O-CHI
We don’t have to fight the walruses! We are going to have to get rid of Scragg before the comet comes back. We’re gonna have to push him off of the steepest side of the ravine away from my parents. There’s no other way to beat him because if he gets free- whoa!
SEAWEED
Oh yeti, Och! He killed my dad. I’m not prepared for this. I always thought I would be older before I faced Scragg.
Plus I have heard that even melted to that boulder of his he can eat a dozen wild barking deer in one gulp. So we can’t just walk up behind him and push him up a 50’ hill and over a cliff. We can’t even get within 10 feet of him...
O-CHI
You’d rather sit 100 feet away with a mirror and just tick him off, huh? Well we can’t be afraid anymore Seaweed. I am so sick of being afraid. I was raised on fear. For 200 years that’s all my parents have done, is BE SCARED! If we get him now then it’s over. The comet hits, we get the stardust and Voila- WE WIN!!!
Maybe without the Hill my family will want to live again. Oh Seaweed we HAVE to do this!!!
SEAWEED
O-Chi, I AM NOT AFRAID to go after Scragg. I would do anything for your family so I’m not saying that I won’t do this BUT we have to think this through. We can’t just rush out and push Scragg off of the cliff. We have to make a plan. What time is it?
O-CHI
9:53 why?
SEAWEED
Because I can think more clearly at my Dad’s grave.
O-CHI
What about meeting with Adligo and Leo?
SEAWEED
I have plenty of time.
O-CHI
Well then I’m going with you.
O-Chi’s Old Home & family cemetery 10:05 am
The Himalayas are not all ice and snow. A little lower on the Menlung Glacier is more colorful terrain. There’s an old abandon home that looks like it could have been a beautiful place to live in it’s day. Weeds and vines have overtaken it and the trees have grown tall around the old cemetery in the field near the house.
Once at the cemetery you can see more beautiful homes as if this was once a neighborhood. The homes are made of stone and camouflaged enough to fit naturally into the landscape. Seaweed makes his way to his father’s headstone and O-Chi respectfully follows a few steps behind- they are silent! Seaweed kneels down before his dads grave. The headstone is tastefully crafted and it reads TASSLE OX RIP.
SEAWEED
I sure do need you now dad. I remember how you always told me that I was going to be a great leader. I guess you didn’t count on that comet...... I guess I’m big enough to get Scragg now... and I’m not sure how to do it... I need your help. Could you put a clever plan in my head so we can get rid of Scragg forever? ...The yeti are going to be free again dad. When the stardust comes O-Chi and I are going to free his family, all your friends... It’s going to be great, dad..... I miss you.
Suddenly, Angelique comes running as fast as she can through the field. She does a figure eight and speeds into the cemetery behind a headstone near Seaweed. Breathless she screams...
AnGELIQUE
Help! Get your friend off of me!
Just as she screams for help Jeremy bursts into the picture doing his crazy hop routine as he chases Angelique...
JEREMY
But I love you! I just want to take you out for some wild berries sometime- or mushrooms- I know where there’s a field of wild shrooms, Angel face- Angel-ique, they’re so good you’ll be happy for days!
Angelique runs to O-Chi...
AnGELIQUE
Can you talk some sense into him O-Chi?
O-CHI
C’mon Jeremy- get a grip! You don’t get a girl by scaring her half to death- you’ve got to be cool...
SONG Be Cool but Don’t Freeze
As the song plays O-Chi woo’s Angelique with his understanding of women while at the same time coaching Jeremy on the art of the chase and about how you have to play things cool. The song is perfect for swing dancing and so he shows Angelique some moves that she has never ever seen but she keeps up and becomes smitten with O-Chi...
Other animals in this scene include: Indian Flying Fox, Indian Pipistrelle, Hanuman Langur, Golden Jackel, Bengal Fox, Yellow-throated Marten, Common Otter, Smooth-coated Otter, Large Indian Civet, Small Indian Civet , Indian Grey Mongoose, Small Asian Mongoose, Jungle Cat, Fishing Cat, Spotted Leopard, Asiatic Elephant, Hog Deer, Barking Deer, Indian Bison, Wild Water Buffalo , Blue Bull Antelope, Black Giant Squirrel, Five striped Squirrel, Red Flying Squirrel, Indian Crested Porcupine, Indian Hare.
AnGELIQUE
(being twirled as the song is ending)
Oh, Oh,... O-chi Wa Wa!
JEREMY
I’ll fight you for her O-Chi!
O-Chi
Didn’t you hear a word I said??? Anyway I’m not after your little ferret.
Angelique
(looking terribly let down, says to herself)
I’m an Ermine
The music makes an abrupt end note!!!
On that note snow from the trees falls onto the old house, many of the animals and onto the headstones.
The camera pans back to Seaweed who has been somewhat oblivious to the whole production. He is focused on a plan. Just as he bellows out...
Seaweed
I’ve got it!
He has turned away from his father’s headstone and is facing his friends. O-Chi sees the headstone of Tassle Ox behind Seaweed and just as Seaweed hollers- snow has just covered the first three letters leaving only Tas(sle ox) remaining! O-Chi becomes flushed!
O-Chi
Sleox...King Sleox??? huh???
Seaweed
What?
O-Chi
(unsure of what to do or say)
Uhh, I just wish King Sleox was here to help us, that’s all!
Seaweed
Well he’s not, but I am right here with an idea- you know Great minds-ideas???
O-Chi is still confused over the headstone. He is beginning to get jealous of Seaweed because if Tassle was the king then that makes Seaweed the Prince and if Tassle is dead then Seaweed is the King. He looks at Seaweed and imagines him standing there like yeti royalty...O-Chi feels like a lowly peasant and so he decides to keep his suspicion to himself...
O-Chi
what genius?
Seaweed
We build a water tower uphill from Scragg and fill the whole ravine. Scragg can’t swim with that big boulder on him. He won’t float... he’ll drown!
O-Chi
And what about my family right below? If the water gives way then they could be hurt.
Seaweed
Hhhhmmmn, OK, then we’ll have to move your family.
O-Chi
Sure Seaweed, and the 3 tons of ice they’re attached to will be NO PROBLEM!!!
O-Chi is really frustrated. He just knows in his heart that Seaweed must be the son of King Sleox but he wonders how they came to be Oxen? And then it hits him-- an ox never lives to be 210 years old (Seaweeds age) and now he is certain that Seaweed is a yeti. Shocked and confused by some still missing pieces of information for O-Chi can’t focus or pay attention any longer.
O-Chi
(rushing away)
I gotta go....
JEREMY
Who peed in his Wheaties this morning?
seaweed
C’mon Jeremy let’s go meet Adligo & Leo.
FADE TO:
the lake by the
Clubhouse- Noon
Adligo is impatiently waiting while Leo and Lipo
are calmly playing as Seaweed and Jeremy come walking up.
Adligo
(sarcastically)
Hello boys... I see you found the place all right?
Jeremy
Duh, we live here- of course we found it.
Leo comes walking up. He pats Seaweed on the head and greets the boys. Seaweed double-takes at Leo as he is touched by the friendly human. The pat on the head was warm and Seaweed likes Leo very much. Lipo is really excited too. He starts doing the lima bean dance. Where his head bends toward his back legs on the left, then on the right, making his body look like a lima bean.
seaweed
Hello.
leo
(approaching with Lipo)
Hi. He’s very friendly. The worst he’ll do is lick you to death... I understand you guys want to learn more about the comet that’s coming.
seaweed
Hey Lipo, hey little guy... We sure do. When will it be here?
leo
Lipo- SIT. Tomorrow night. Well, actually around 3 am the following morning... Sit Lipo- good boy!
seaweed
How do you know?
leo
Well, I’m an astronomer. I have equipment to see planets, the stars and constellations in outer space... and I have been doing this for many, many years... so that’s how I know.
Jeremy
So you have equipment that you can look through and see things that are far away?
LEO
That’s right.
Jeremy
So you if I wanted to look at someone- er, I mean something- not very close to here then I could get equipment that would show me?
Leo
You could.
seaweed
(looking disgusted)
Knock it off Jeremy. You don’t even know where she lives... anyway it’s creepy to spy on people...
Jeremy
(imagining Angelique)
Spy? Who’s a spy? I just want to get a good look at her. She’s always running away from me and I never get to really look at her.
seaweed
C-reepy! Really creepy Jeremy.
Adligo
So, you boys want to see the comet when it comes don’t you?
Seaweed
We were hoping to get close to it. Maybe even get a piece of it.
Leo
Oh guys, you can’t get near it. It will need to be tested and studied by scientists... There will probably be a crowd of scientists here by tomorrow... In fact I have already seen dozens of them arriving in town just waiting.
Jeremy
Wonderful! With all due respect Leo, you know how much we animals love humans...or NOT!
Seaweed
I hate em. Why can’t they just stay way from here? ...Uh, sorry Leo, I didn’t mean I hate you.
Leo
(interrupting)
Seaweed, some humans are bad. No doubt about it- but many humans are good. It’s just like Scragg- does he represent all the yeti or is he just one bad yeti?
Seaweed
(shocked)
You know about the yeti??? ...and Scragg???
Adligo
Leo isn’t like other
humans Seaweed...
Leo
(interrupting)
I have lived on the Menlung for a very long time son, I know about Scragg.... and although it’s hard to detect a yeti when he blends... there are always the footprints he leaves behind!
SEAWEED
Footprints... that’s just mindless dribble from over exposed humans that come looking for mythological yeti! Don’t you know that there are no yeti, and who’s Scragg?
LEO
Scragg almost killed me once. He is fearsome and vicious and he wants to rule the Menlung.
JEREMY
So if you hate this Scragg guy so much then why don’t you take him down? Get rid of him? ...Kill him?
ADLIGO
Kill? No Jeremy! Physical violence is never the answer- what good would that do?
JEREMY
Well he’d stop eating your friends for one!
Leo
Perhaps, but everything and everyone has a purpose in this life- a purpose that is determined before we are even born.
Seaweed
What if it is someone’s purpose to get rid of a bad guy?
Jeremy
Yeah, like what if we have to take out the bad guy so the good guys can live?
Seaweed
(giving the “shut up” look to Jeremy)
Or just what if getting rid of the bad guy saves a lot of people? How can that be bad?
LEO
It’s not bad to want to save people, especially your friends- that’s admirable! But only if you have exhausted all of the other choices should you consider getting rid of Scragg. Think Seaweed. There is always another way.
Leo ties a small bag to Seaweeds necklace of which he does not open the contents. He ties it and keeps talking.
Leo (cont’d)
Open this later, when you are thinking for yourself, when you’re clear and in tune. Open it and listen. It holds many answers for you.
Seaweed thinks that Leo is starting to sound like Adligo when he meditates and so he somewhat blows off the instructions that Leo is giving him. Seaweed nods agreeably but really doesn’t take an interest in the pouch that Leo has given him.
Leo (cont’d)
....Now, about this comet. Would you like to see it in my telescope?
Jeremy
Uh Yeah!
Leo
C’mon I’ll take you!
O-Chi looks out from the window of the clubhouse down to the lake and he sees them all rushing off somewhere. He intends to follow but he sees that something has fallen from Seaweeds neck and he goes to retrieve it once the human has gone.
O-Chi hops along in the snow like he’s 007 trying to avoid being captured. The human is well out of sight but O-Chi is paranoid and dramatic. He sees the bag and opens it...
The small leather drawstring pouch at first seems to have nothing in it but upon further examination and a whole lot of shaking the heck out of the pouch for a small, little piece of a movie reel falls out of the bag.
O-CHI
What? ...a movie clipping???? ...huh, ...hhhmmn
O-Chi examines it. He holds it to the sunlight to see what is on it but he sees nothing as the sun is way too bright.
O-CHI (cont’d)
What the heck? ....dang!
Confused by this little slip of plastic O-Chi now tries to polish it. He rubs it furiously against his fur trying to clean it so that some clue of its contents can be revealed.
O-CHI (cont’d)
I know you are hiding something you stupid little piece of plastic... but what?
O-Chi goes back inside the clubhouse. He holds the movie clip up to a candle that is lit beside his bed and still he sees nothing. He lays down and just stares at the tiny snippet of plastic. Intently staring at the object makes him grow drowsy until he falls asleep and begins to dream....
FADE TO:
O-CHI’s Dream -daytime
Trumpets are sounding, a choir is singing and the sound of troops marching fill the air. It sounds like a celebration for a king, O-Chi thinks to himself... He is laying on a royal bed in a grand palace. He gets up from the bed and goes to the window and looks out... It is a celebration for a king... O-Chi sees Seaweed (as a Yeti) in a decorative robe walking down a red carpet approaching the palace. Seaweed holds a scepter and turns to a large crowd.
SEAWEED
My loyal subjects... today is a fine day.
O-Chi is dazed and in disbelief! He is jealous and overwhelmed.
O-CHI
Seaweed can’t be the king.. No... he’s an ox. He gets in trouble all the time. He lives in a clubhouse and he’s really messy!!!
Growing frustrated O-Chi runs through the palace and out into the crowd.
O-CHI
That’s not the king. He’s not the king- he’s an Ox. He’s just an ox. That’s Seaweed the ox!
But the crowd can’t hear him or see him. The crowd cheers on as Seaweed addresses them.
SEAWEED
Today we get to witness a thief get the justice that is coming to him....
Seaweed holds up the small drawstring pouch that had been stolen from him and then turns to a henchman standing beside him.
SEAWEED (cont’d)
The tail please...
The henchman pulls out a tail with an enormous blow-dart on the end of it. The tail looks exactly like the one the boys use for pin the tail on the walrus only this one is bigger, sharper and it looks deadly.
Seaweed makes piercing eye contact with O-Chi and then slowly licks the tail, sets the mouthpiece in place, fills his lungs with a huge, deep breath and blows.... in slow motion the deadly dart heads straight for O-Chi.... BLAM! O-Chi wakes up to Seaweed and Jeremy in his face.
SEAWEED (cont’d)
Hello, hellllloooooo in there. O-Chi, we saw the comet! Oh my gosh, it is so intense.
JEREMY
Yeah, it looks like a tiny little space man driving a big fat space car with a thousand little space gnats chasing after him.
Seaweed and O-Chi suddenly pause and make eye contact then stare at Jeremy with a complete lack of understanding for the way his brain works.
SEAWEED
Do you feel better?
JEREMY
Yeah did your wittle nap help calm that big ugly rude beast inside of you?
O-CHI
Funny Jeremy. It’s not going to be so funny when I give your other eyebrow a matching wachoono.
(starting to laugh)
...or maybe it will be.
O-Chi starts to wrestle with Jeremy. Seaweed jumps in on the action and they wrestle until they are exhausted. At that point they all lay on the floor of their clubhouse talking.
JEREMY
I’m gonna have kids- lotsa kids...48 of ‘em.
O-CHI
You gotta get a girl first lover-boy.
JEREMY
I know, I know. I will. I just like to talk about it. The more I talk about it the more it feels real to me- like my vision becomes a reality the more I say it out loud.
You ever notice how everybody gets all tense about their feelings. Most people don’t even let themselves think their true feelings much less say them out loud. I think people NEED to say what they feel and what they dream of, everyday. Out loud. (of course they could always paint, sculpt or draw them too!)
You guys think I’m one-track minded but that’s OK- I guess I am but I know one day I will get what I want if I stay that way!
SEAWEED
Aw, we just like to give you a hard time. But since we’re being serious Jeremy- I have always admired your vision! I never see you sit around feeling sorry for yourself because your species is extinct.
O-Chi
I think Vision is a good thing... but you know it’s pointless with out Focus.
JEREMY
I am focused... on Angelique!!!
O-CHI
I’m talking about my family. I don’t think my dad really wants to be a mindless idiot content with merely the country air and simpletons for company! I think he just doesn’t want to let my mom down by talking about getting free when he feels beaten by the stupid hill.
SEAWEED
Have you ever tried to imagine yourself stuck to that hill? I mean really stuck? Dependent on kids to feed you, no snowboarding, no fishing, no pin the tail on the walrus, aw yeti- no bowling for penguins... you couldn’t wrestle or give Jeremy a wachoono... 50 years, 100 years, 200 years and counting... I mean really think about it. Och you are always so hard on him for not living life but what is he supposed to do? What would you have him do???
O-CHI
(frustrated)
I’d have him... well, I’d have him... I’d have him find something he Can do. Maybe getting off of the hill isn’t a reality but there’s gotta to be something he can still accomplish- something that inspires him that he can still do...something all of them can do!
JEREMY
I rest my case.
O-CHI
Your case?
JEREMY
Yup, I rest my case.
Seaweed
What do you mean?
JEREMY
I rest my case- people don’t talk about their feelings! Pardon the negative vibe here but O-Chi you don’t have any vision or focus either! Oh sure it’s easy for you to sit around blaming your parents for a lack of it but I don’t see you communicating your vision to them. I don’t see you down there helping them LIVE. No you just expect them to live according to your plan, your vision (without telling them what it is I might add) and then you are secretly angry all the time because they don’t! So really you are mad that they aren’t mind readers too?? You’re all just big chickens- afraid to talk...
Seaweed
Don’t you think you are being a bit hard on him Jeremy?
JEREMY
No, I’m just being temperamental- we artsy types get that way... I’m better now! So what do you think Angelique is doing right now?
O-Chi
I hate to admit it... but you know what Jeremy- you might be right. I’m going to go talk to my parents... anyway, we need to feed ‘em again... you guys coming?
SEAWEED
Yeah, wait a sec., my hoof fell asleep... oowe...I hate that!
FADE TO black:
The Hill- dinner time
The boys come snowboarding up with a tray full of mixed greens and more fish.
JEREMY
Dant-ta-da... Helloo-O-o-O-o Hill’s! Did you miss me?
When the boys approach Mom is playing tick-tack-toe with Uncle Jack. They play by looking at each other as they both make the shape of the game on their chest. Mom is about to win with 3 straight O’s horizontally across the middle.
MOM
Hello boys...I’m about to whip Uncle Jack...
O-Chi looks at his mom and the two O’s smack in the middle of her chest and he becomes embarrassed. The other boys begin to snicker... Dad quickly realizes what is going on.
DAD
Mama- your O’s...
MOM
I know honey, I have him- it’s no cat’s game this time...
DAD
No mama, look at your, O’s...
MOM
(catching on)
Oh, Ooooooh...
Mom is embarrassed and she quickly reshapes to her usual self. Katie can’t let this opportunity go by.
KATIE
If I were you I’d play tick-tack-toe more often...you need all the help you can get.
DAD
I like you just the way you are mama- there’s no need for games between us!
Katie feels ashamed that she insulted Mama Hill and that Ace came dashing to mamas rescue. Also feeling jealous Katie tries to get some seclusion by shaping an umbrella on top of her head for privacy.
KATIE
It’s getting awfully stuffy around here today...
BUTCH
It’s not stuffy Katie, you’re just jealous! Yup, jealous she has a husband and you don’t. You don’t have a husband because you push everyone away.
Katie ignores Butch and they boys begin to serve dinner.
O-CHI
Hey, dad??? I was thinking, I mean I was wondering...
The boys look at him with encouraging eyes.
O-CHI (cont’d)
I wanted to know?
DAD
What son? What do you want to know?
O-CHI
Do you, I mean is there...something you want to do that maybe I could help you do?
DAD
What are you talking about?
Seaweed and Jeremy are somewhat let down by O-Chi’s cop out but they rush in to help him anyway.
JEREMY
Like, what do you dream about doing one day???
DAD
(sarcastically)
I think I’ll run marathons...
O-CHI
Seriously dad. Is there something you can really do that you want to do?
Mom
I’ve always wanted to learn to draw...
JEREMY
Draw? Draw you say? I can give lessons in drawing....
Nacho
Say, uh, I would take them from ya Jeremy.
Uncle jack
I would too...I want to draw ships. Big pirate ships with all of those fancy sails and flags...
DAD
What do you say Butch- you want to learn to draw?
BUTCH
I won’t learn anything, I can’t draw. Never could. I’m just not a draw-er.
DAD
Katie, how about you?
KATIE
I don’t need lessons. I once dated an artist...
JEREMY
(cutting Katie off)
OK it’s unanimous then! I’ll be here bright and early at 2:00 PM tomorrow ready to go. Don’t worry about coming prepared for class- I’ll bring everything!
The boys say their goodnights and head for home on their snowboards. While on the way Seaweed strikes up a conversation.
Seaweed
You know Leo knows about Scragg?
O-CHI
Huh????
SEAWEED
Yeah, and he knows that yeti exist too!
O-CHI
It’s got to be Adligo.
SEAWEED
I don’t think so O-Chi. I think he really knows first hand. He said he was almost killed by Scragg.
O-CHI
Do you think Scragg told him about the yeti?
SEAWEED
I don’t think Scragg told him anything. I get the feeling he has seen you. Or maybe other yeti that we don’t know about.
Jeremy
Maybe there were other survivors that have been hidden all these years. They have survived in a cave on nothing but bread and water, alone and isolated for 200 years...
O-CHI
OK drama king- we get the picture. So do you guys like this Leo guy?
SEAWEED
Oh yeah, he rocks! He knows everything there is to know about the stars.
Speaking of which, we need to get focused on tomorrow night guys. The comet comes just after midnight tomorrow and we don’t have a plan for how to deal with Scragg. Or for how to free your family O-Chi... talk about mindless idiots- we wrote the book....
JEREMY
You wrote a book? Without me?
SEAWEED
No, that was just a figure of speech.
JEREMY
A figure? Oh and I suppose asking me to illustrate the figures in your book never crossed your mind???
SEAWEED
No, uh, I mean, there is no book!
JEREMY
(laughing)
I’m only kidding. I was just playing dumb- brushing up on my acting skills for all the cameras that will be here for the comet tomorrow night.
O-CHI
Camera’s. Oh yeti- you’re right. There WILL be camera’s. 200 years ago they didn’t have camera’s, but now days... you can’t go anywhere without camera’s!
We have to hide The Hill’s. Maybe we can build a hut around them?
SEAWEED
There’s not enough time.
JEREMY
I know, tomorrow in art class I’ll have them draw a giant banner- big enough to block any camera’s from seeing them.
O-CHI
Great idea, Oh artistic one!
OK then you are on banner duty tomorrow. That leaves you and I, Seaweed, to deal with Scragg!
The boys are just arriving home by this time but the camera angle stays outside. The boys walk inside the clubhouse- turn on the lights and begin to devise a plan to get Scragg. The silhouettes of O-Chi and Seaweed through a window in the house go at it for hours, talking, bickering and even agreeing occasionally but still they have no plan for Scragg.
FADE TO BLACK.
The clubhouse- 10:00 PM
Exhausted from trying to come up with a plan for the last several hours for Seaweed stretches his neck and happens to looks over toward O-Chi’s night stand where he sees the pouch that Leo gave him...
SEAWEED
(with anger)
You thieving clump of buffalo biscuit...
O-Chi sees that Seaweed is very mad and he also knows he’s been caught red handed! Unsure of whether it is jealousy or just not the right time for Seaweed to learn the truth- O-Chi pounces as fast as he can onto the pouch. As he looks toward Seaweed all O-Chi can see is a big hoof heading right for his face so he blends into the pouch!
Suddenly the pouch begins to burst full of light. Light beams shoot from the pouch and the sound of a reel-to-reel film being played echoes loudly from the bag.
Seaweed reaches into the bag and pulls out the little movie clip. The clip now fills the room with light creating a hologram image that is life-like. O-Chi stands within the hologram- both shocked and fascinated. When he blended with the movie clip it set the hologram in motion. O-Chi wants so badly to blend back into himself but his curiosity is far too strong for him to leave the clip now- he just has to know what the clip is about...
The clip begins 200 years ago about a couple of weeks before the first comet hit. It shows King Sleox, his advisor and his son and daughter leaving their palace and heading into the palace courtyard. They walk into a barn full of animals. Inside the barn the king gives instructions.
King Sleox
We must be extremely careful. Since this is your first trip to the Menlung with me you must understand how risky it can be. So c’mon now children blend with one of the animals. Choose a strong one or a fast one. We’ll go undercover. We’ll walk right by Scragg and his band of evil doers...
King Sleox and the prince each blend with an Ox and the princess blends with an ermine. The kings advisor does not blend. The group heads out of the palace gates with the advisor dressed up like a human monk. The advisor imitates a human that is pulling oxen to market... The unlikely crew slips right by Scragg's wicked gang.
The walk to the Menlung is long and sometimes treacherous. The group tries to keep a conversation going to forget about their hardship.
The Kings Advisor
I’ll bet Ace will be so glad to see you.
KiNG SLEOX
I will be glad to see him! It’s only once a year now that I get to visit. I’ll bet my god-son is growing like a poppy...
The KINGS ADVISOR
Why doesn’t Ace just move his family back to the palace?
KiNG SLEOX
Ace always wanted to live in the country. For as long as I’ve known him- palace life was just never a fit! He stayed for me but he always dreamt of a home in the country with his wife and son.
One day he came to me and presented his vision of the fresh country air, a small house in a quaint meadow...down-home simple neighbors that would sit around a campfire playing music and board games...
I couldn’t tell him no. So I made him governor of the Menlung. I sent him to start a small town for our people. He’s built quite a place there. I’d say there are about 75 yeti folk living there now...
The KINGS ADVISOR
You really think a lot of him don’t you?
KinG SLEOX
He’s like a brother Adligo, he’s like a brother!
O-Chi snaps back to his yeti form when the name Adligo is spoken! Could it be? Could there be two Adligo’s or did by some misfortune Adligo become a walrus when the comet struck???
SEAWEED
Adligo???? O-Chi you have to blend back. I think that Adligo might really be a yeti. O-Chi PLEASE- we have to know the truth. The king is talking about your dad O-Chi- they were friends! Did you know that your dad is the governor????
O-CHI
It’s giving me a headache to blend... my dad is governor????
JEREMY
Don’t be a big baby- go back right now... we’re on the edge of our seats (this is better than WWF)!
O-Chi holds his breath and reluctantly blends back into the movie clip. He may or may not have accidentally skipped a scene because he enters where the prince and princess are having a snowball fight. The prince is an ox and he is strong but the princess is an ermine and she is fast. The princess takes a snowball and hurls it at the prince. It plows him right in the nose. The prince tries desperately to catch the princess but she is too fast. Finally the perfect opportunity comes along-- the prince cocks his arm back like a world series pitcher and lets it go- Boom the princess is hit!
The Princess
Oowe, you big bully! I’m one tenth of your size. Do you think you could go a little easy on me????
The Prince
No way Angelique. You never take it easy on me. Remember I’M the little brother here! It’s me that gets picked on all the time by you and your friends... Paybacks are a booger aren’t they???
KiNG SLEOX
Settle down you two. We’re getting close to the Menlung and I want you to look presentable when we arrive.
As the royal group reaches the village where Ace and his family live they notice a festival getting started. There are games and food and so much fun to be had that the prince and princess start to rush off into the festival.
KiNG SLEOX (cont’d)
Hold it!!!
Angelique and the prince submissively stop in their tracks, turn to look at the king and obey his order.
KinG SLEOX (cont’d)
(whispering)
We must stay in disguise for now children- don’t take your natural form until I confirm our safety here. Oh, and there’s something else... I have been coming here for years as Tassle Ox. Only Ace knows that Tassle Ox is really King Sleox. I usually stay a few days as Tassle and then arrive as The King a few days later- I do it for safety reasons.
THE PRINCE
(laughing)
Yeah and I’m sure it’s a good way to see what the yeti REALLY think about the king...
THE KINGS ADVISOR (Adligo)
I’ll go into town and check out the outlying areas. I’ll make sure Scragg hasn’t been here. I’ll meet you back here tomorrow afternoon.
Tassle, Angelique and the prince arrive.... Katie comes running up to them.
KATIE
Tassle you handsome beast...give me a hug- we’ve missed you. How are you? Who are your darling friends?
Nacho
Say, uh, hey Tassle- when’d you get here? Say, uh, you want some of my famous potato salad... c’mon you gotta try it.
Tassle gets whisked off with Katie and Uncle Jack. Angelique and the prince are fine with that as they were not pleased about Katie pinching their cheeks and cooing over them.
TasSLE
Don’t go too far kids stay where I can see you.
Angelique walks over to a big beautiful tree in the park and seems to be having fun by herself. The prince wanders over to the moonwalk. Ace and mama see Tassle from a distance. They walk over to him at the food table.
Dad (ace)
Tassle!
TasSLE
Ace, my friend!
The two hug each other and Tassle looks at mama and reaches to hug her too.
MOM
It’s good to see you Tassle- you look fit!
TasSLE
Fit enough to beat you at a game of Tick-tack-toe?
MOM
Maybe later, they’re playing duck duck goose over there- c’mon let’s go show them how it’s done... c’mon guys!
Tassle and Ace reluctantly
indulge Mama and go play duck duck goose.
Mom, Dad, Katie, Nacho, Uncle Jack, Butch and Tassle are playing a game of duck duck goose. Tassle is IT.
Tassle
Duck...duck...Duck...duck...
Nacho
Say, uh, anyday now Tassle.
Katie
(batting her eyes)
Tassle, over here.
Uncle jack
Katie, puh-lease!
The sky begins to darken and the yeti folk think perhaps a storm is coming. Soon, the party comes to a stand still and the yeti are all in a state of caution.
tASSLE
Quiet everybody, stay still...
The camera turns to the trees and the mountainside where heavy winds begin to blow away everything in their path...
On top of the Menlung Glacier is Scragg. He looks down onto the festivities as he gets ready to push a giant boulder off the cliff so that it will crash onto the party below.
Scragg
(with an evil laugh)
You think you’re so clever. Hmn-hmn-hmn- but you don’t fool me.... Tassle Ox- or should I say King Sleox? Just a little to the left, a little more and...
The sky is growing louder and louder with what could be thunder but it’s not like any thunder ever heard before. As the noise draws nearer, most all of the yeti automatically blend into their environment to camouflage themselves from whatever is coming. A metal trash can salvaged from a human camp has now flipped over on top of O-Chi leaving him totally covered.
MoM
O-Chi Where are you O-Chi??? O-Chi baby, where are you??? O-Chi...Ooooooo-Chiiiiiii
Dad (Ace)
(looking all over and then up)
O-Chi- dad wants you??? O-Chi come to daddy??? O-Chi??? ...Scragg!!!!!! It’s Scragg!!! Scragg...
Tassle went rushing over to save his God son, O-Chi, but a cyclone of wind and rock lift Tassle off the ground spinning and whipping him into the air higher and higher--
Uncle jack
Tassle??? Give me your hoof... Tassle????
Mom, Dad, Katie, Nacho, Uncle Jack and Butch rally underneath Tassle trying to reach for his hoof to pull him back down but the strong winds keep lifting Tassle higher. Meanwhile a huge drift of snow is wedging it’s way between the group. The instinct to blend is intense and each one of these characters is fighting the urge to blend... they automatically blend and then snap back out- it’s pure chaos for them right now.
Katie
Ohhh Tassle... Come back....
Butch
He’s gone- Scragg’s gonna get ‘em... It’s over, he’s had it...
Scragg is gleefully watching Tassle be quickly pulled up by dangerous winds. Dad (Ace) jumps up after Tassle trying to grab on to him to pull him down to the ground.
The yeti are heartsick at seeing their friend Tassle at the mercy of the meanest and cruelest yeti in all the world. Loud sounds, moaning and fighting echo through the rage of the disaster.
It appears as if Tassle has been killed by Scragg-- but up on the Menlung cliff is a human, an astronomer, with all kinds of equipment. He is trying to get a look at the comet. As Tassle blasts suddenly up the mountainside for he fights with Scragg. Scragg sends Tassle a shocking blow that throws Tassle up against a tree about 30 feet away. Tassle comes at him with a sharp branch and Scragg blends with the boulder. The human is in shock as he sees Tassle take his natural form as King Sleox a strong and powerful yeti. With branch in hand the King starts to pry at Scragg’s boulder trying to send him over the cliff... Scragg pokes his feet out trying to kick Sleox off of him. The human approaches King Sleox in an attempt to save him...
Human
Take Cover!
BLAM!!! Bright lights and sparks fly-- the Earth blasts all over and around, debris is flying and the noise is almost unbearable. A comet has hit the Himalayas. But not before King Sleox blended with the human. The friendly, intelligent and curious astronomer was now blended with Sleox.
The sparks glisten and attach themselves to the snow melting it into an opalescent shiny cement-like ice form. All that was blended was blended permanently.
As Sleox tries to wrap his mind around what has happened for Scragg lunges at him. With just feet sticking out from the bottom of a giant boulder Scragg tries to crush the human by rolling on him. Sleox sees Scragg coming and holds his position until the last minute when he steps aside and watches Scragg roll and tumble to the bottom of a very steep ravine.
KiNG SLEOX
Rock & Roll!
Leo looks out over the park where the festival was being held and sees nothing but devastation. No sign of life anywhere. He fights back the tears and finds courage deep inside of him to head for the human city to look for answers.
The sound of a reel-to-reel movie begins to echo loudly again as it begins to skip as if it has reached the end. O-Chi snaps back to himself and the room is dead silent as the tiny clip of plastic floats slowly to the ground. Seaweed, O-Chi and Jeremy stand in utter shock at what they have just seen.
JEREMY
My future wife...is a yeti princess??? I-yai-yai!
O-CHI
Seaweed... I think you’re The...
SEAWEED
(Abruptly cutting O-Chi off)
They never said his name... probably some distant relative of mine... I’m not a p-p-prince.
You’re the prince O-Chi- The royal God-son of the king- I don’t know how much more princely you can get than that???
O-CHI
We have to find Leo, er, I mean The King! I need to meet him- will you guys take me to him?
JEREMY
It’s the middle of the night O-Chi.
SEAWEED
We should rest tonight O-Chi and go in the morning. The comet comes about this time tomorrow and if we exhaust ourselves then how will we be able to do any good for our friends?
O-CHI
I won’t be able to sleep after all of this.
JEREMY
I feel your pain- I have to teach in the morning- I need butcher paper, crayons, paint...
But I need my beauty sleep more. Goodnight!!
The boys go to sleep or at least they try to. Jeremy falls quickly into a deep sleep accompanied by an obnoxious snore. O-Chi tosses and turns while Seaweed lay silently still with his eyes wide open. Trying so hard to remember his childhood but he can’t. As scenes flash before him for there are no memories other than his life with O-Chi and The Hill’s. Sleep comes.
fade TO BLACK.
Walrus Bay- Morning
Seaweed and O-Chi are heading to Leo’s laboratory. Seaweed knows where it is as he and Jeremy had been there to see the comet through Leo’s giant telescope. The leather pouch is tied around Seaweeds neck and O-Chi is dressed up and groomed like a gentleman.
O-CHI
Do you think he’ll like me?
SEAWEED
Well he likes your dad so I guess he’ll like you too.
O-CHI
Do I look alright?
SEAWEED
You look fine... you look nice.
O-CHI
I’m so nervous!
SEAWEED
He’s really nice Och- he’s friendly and smart...just the kind of guy you’d want to be friends with. There it is, the door with the Do Not Enter sign on it.
The boys knock on the door and wait. Nothing- no answer. They knock again and wait some more.
O-CHI
You think he’s home?
SEAWEED
(annoyed)
How should I know- it’s not my week to watch him?
O-CHI
Ha, ha...
Then the door opens. It’s Adligo.
ADLIGO
Good morning boys- I was just mediating.
O-CHI
(sarcastically)
Great!
ADLIGO
What are you doing here so early??? Is something wrong?
The boys stare at him and inspect him looking for any signs that he might be a yeti.
ADLIGO (cont’d)
Uh, guys, what’s going on?
SEAWEED
We want to see Leo!
ADLIGO
O-Chi too???
SEAWEED
(pointing to the pouch on his neck)
Yup- we’re here to talk to him about this!
Adligo is very surprised.
ADLIGO
But what about yeti code... never reveal yourself to humans???
O-CHI
That only applies to yeti and real humans- not Kings that have been permanently blended to a human by a comet!!!
Adligo almost faints from O-Chi’s comment but sits down instead just as Leo, King Sleox, enters the room.
Leo (King sleox)
Very good O-Chi! Very Good! Let me get a good look at you. My long lost God-son. You’ve grown so much these last hundred years!
SEAWEED
(interrupts with frustration)
Why did you give me the movie clip? Why give it to a stupid Ox that you know can’t blend to make it work?
Leo (King sleox)
But you CAN make it work. You can wrap your mind around anything you want Seaweed. You don’t have to physically blend in order to put your mind to something? Ever heard of mind over matter? Come Seaweed, sit down. Did you watch the film?
SEAWEED
Yeah, we all did.
ADLIGO
You all?
O-CHI
Oh, me, Seaweed and Jeremy.
Leo (King sleox)
(looking at intently Seaweed)
And still you can’t see what is right in front of you?
SEAWEED
What, that I am some distant relative of an old ox from an ancient palace stable that you blended with 200 years ago?
Leo (King sleox)
(smiling and moving in for a hug)
Oh, my boy, my sweet boy- we are going to have to work on that self esteem of yours! You are the Prince, Seaweed- you are my son! You were playing on the moonwalk when the comet struck- it collapsed and the overhead beam knocked you unconscious- you stayed an ox because the stardust bound you to the ox. Seaweed you have amnesia- is any of it coming back now???
SEAWEED
(starting to realize what is happening)
I’m the Prince??? The prince? I have a dad? A living breathing, walking talking dad? This is the Best day of my life!!!!!
Leo (King sleox)
You didn’t just become a prince today Seaweed- and you didn’t just gain a family today either. Your sister Angelique and I have watched over you all of the years. Your family has been in your heart and your title has been in your character!
SEAWEED
But I have felt so lonely and stupid and abandoned all these years.
Leo (King sleox)
Then you chose to feel that way son. Life is a journey from one point to another- we can define ourselves by what has happened up to a certain point OR we can set our sights high and define ourselves by our potential.
Is a butterfly defined by the slimy cocooned caterpillar stage of his life or do we think of the butterfly as a beautiful gift of nature?
Having vision is what really matters. When you focus your potential like a laser beam on that vision so intently that you can taste it- so strongly that it feels real and obtainable...then you will prevail- then you will realize your potential!
SEAWEED
(hugging and holding Leo)
Oh dad, I have missed you!
Angelique comes walking sleepy-eyed out from the bedroom. She sees her dad and Seaweed hugging and she jumps in making it a group hug! She quickly realizes that O-Chi is in the room. She gets very insecure as she has developed a secret crush on O-Chi ever since their dance.
AnGELIQUE
(looking at O-Chi)
Eeeck- I don’t usually look this bad- it was, a, I, uh, didn’t sleep very well... uh...
She rushes back into the bedroom. O-Chi could care less about how she looks for all he wants to do is free his family when the comet comes tonight.
Leo pulls out a large blueprint and lays it on the table.
Leo (King sleox)
OK, the way I see it we have to figure out how to keep Scragg from getting free tonight.
O-CHI
What about The Hill’s?
Leo (King sleox)
The Hill’s?
O-CHI
Yeah, my parents and Uncle Jack, Katie, Nacho, Butch?
Leo (King sleox)
(with great joy)
They’re alive? Adligo did you know this?
Adligo
Uh, well, I uh, you know how old-fashioned Ace is when it comes to humans. I was afraid to tell you- to tell him. I didn’t think he’d believe me or see you. I didn’t want to see you get hurt King.
Leo (King sleox)
I don’t know what to say.
Ace is alive!
We have to get word to him about what is going on. He must know that tonight he will be free!
OK, here’s how we work The Hill’s into our plan...
The blueprint is an overview map of the Menlung with all of the important targets highlighted with an X. Leo points to certain targets as he explains his tactical plan to Seaweed, O-Chi and Adligo. The camera pans out and watches them all in discussion without the audience actually getting to hear the details...
FADE TO:
The Hill- 3:00 pm
Jeremy has been holding art class for an hour now. He has taken some large sheets of butcher paper, taped them together and stapled them to a flimsy wooden frame that he built himself. The finished product looks like a giant billboard.
JEREMY
OK students- pass the billboard along once you have completed your section. And remember we are going for chic, cosmopolitan and sassy here, not redneck!
Nacho
Say, uh, I really don’t know what I want my section to say...
JEREMY
(impatiently)
This billboard is supposed to protect you from all the cameras that will be here gawking at the comet tonight. Your billboard needs to detour the tourists... duh!
The camera shows the billboard shaping up nicely. On it there is a skull and cross bones that Uncle Jack drew and a large X with a caution statement underneath that reads “No Trespassing! Violators will be towed” that Butch drew. The banner also has a cute little border Katie drew with smiley faces and Nacho’s section comes together with the caption “Say, uh, No To Drugs.”
NACHO
(as Katie draws smiley faces)
Say, uh, Katie- Why are you...
BUTCH
(interrupting)
Because she is a feather brain. She doesn’t get it- never will.
KATIE
Well you’re just a big fat negative, glass half empty, ...ogre!
JEREMY
Students, students- put your anger INto your artwork. Express your anger IN your art...
DAD
Isn’t it about eating time?
NACHO
Say, uh, now that you mention it, I’m kinda hungry too...
BUTCH
Yeah well, be glad if you get fed tonight. Everyone is so busy with all this comet fuss that we aren’t gonna get to eat. There is no dinner in yeti land tonight!
Just as Butch is going off on his negative tangent for Seaweed and O-Chi come walking up with a grand feast. They have seal meat, oysters, fruit and vegetables. They have orange juice (a real special occasion drink) and a tray of cakes and cookies.
BUTCH (cont’d)
I’m sure that’s not for US. We never get that kind of treatment.
O-CHI
Actually Butch- it IS for you. It’s for all of you. Today we are celebrating your last day on the Hill.
The Hills all begin to sigh in shock and amazement and curiosity.
DAD
O-Chi- hush! You’ll get their hopes up!
O-CHI
It’s OK Dad. You can get your hopes up! This IS your last day as The Hill’s. Tomorrow at this time you will all be independent, free yeti again!
MOM
Do you have a fever son? C’mere and let mama feel your head.
SEAWEED
He doesn’t have a fever! He’s not crazy! And you are going to be free! But if that’s going to happen then we have to work together.
O-CHI
At about 3 in the morning the comet is going to strike. Leo says it’s going to land about a mile south of Walrus Bay near the old cemetery.
DAD
Leo who?
O-Chi
When it strikes, just like last time, stardust is going to fill the air. Our yeti senses are going to want us to blend into the land- BUT we can’t!
The stardust is like glue. I’m not telling you anything you don’t already know. So be ready for the a magic window of time- about 30 seconds of time between the dust falling and the cement process will allow you to regain your shape.
When the dust first hits then you must to take your natural form and do everything in your power to keep from blending!
SEAWEED
If you blend then it could be another 200 years before you have a chance at freedom- so concentrate!
Now O-Chi and I have to go find Leo and get ready for Scragg...
DAD
Who’s Leo? What about Scragg???
The boys hurry away as Dad is hollering at them.
DAD (cont’d)
I hate this stupid Hill- boys wait...come back- who’s Leo?
JEREMY
Don’t worry about them- they know what they’re doing. Now we, on the other hand, need to make sense of this billboard. I think it should go here...no, here, or maybe here...
Jeremy fusses with the placement of the billboard and then with great difficulty sets it in a place that will block the view of any cameras that might see The Hills.
JEREMY (cont’d)
Voila! A triumph, my friends, a triumph! Now I simply must go home and change!
From the corner of Jeremy’s eye he can see a squad of Scragg's walrus thugs approaching The Hills. Jeremy yells out the secret word for blend.
JEREMY (cont’d)
Piddle-ee-Dee... I said Piddle-ee-Dee!
The Hills suddenly blend! The bad walruses close in on Jeremy.
Walrus Thug
We know you’re hiding them little rat...
JEREMY
I am not a rat, thank you! I’m a Jerboa Mouse. I can hop higher than any mouse ever born...
Jeremy starts to do his crazy hop. Some of the walruses just start to laugh while others try at no avail to catch him. Jeremy finds his way to his snowboard and escapes, unfollowed, to the clubhouse. He wipes the sweat off of his wachoonoed brow and breathes a sigh of relief.
FADE TO BLACK.
Walrus Bay- Leo’s Laboratory - evening
Seaweed and O-Chi knock on Leo’s door. Angelique opens it looking starry-eyed at O-Chi.
AnGELIQUE
Come in. Come in.
SEAWEED
Where’s Leo, er, I mean dad?
AnGELIQUE
He’s in the lab... you can go in there.
The boys enter the lab. Leo is sitting next to a lab table where there is a microscope and a bunch of other equipment set up.
Leo
Come look at this guys.
Seaweed looks into the microscope and sees some shiny little atoms zooming around the screen.
Seaweed
What are they?
Then O-Chi looks into the microscope.
Leo
They are the microscopic neurons that make yeti blend automatically. They are not to be confused with the neurons that let us blend at will. The little critters in the microscope are the ones that make us blend without choice...
SEAWEED
So can we use them to go back to normal right now?
Leo
Naw, no, not at all- the stardust is too strong BUT... we can use them to blend Scragg with the boulder completely so that when the comet hits he will remain a toothless-boulder forever!
O-Chi
I don’t get it!
Seaweed
Someone is going to have to get close enough to Scragg to put a whole glob of these neurons on him so he won’t have any choice but to blend the rest of his body into the boulder.
O-Chi
Jeremy is our best chance for that! He can do his crazy hop in Scragg's ravine- throw the neurons right in Scragg's face and bolt outta there! Even if he gets the neurons on him- it’s OK. He can’t blend- he’s safe!
SEAWEED
Hey Leo, dad, do you have a couple of really bright flash lights?
LEO
Flash lights?
SEAWEED
What I mean is like, well, last time we had an encounter with Scragg I used a mirror to shine light in his eyes so that Jeremy could get away. It’s going to be night time so I was thinking O-Chi and I could use flash lights.
LEO
Good thinking son, but I have something better than flash lights. Check these bad boys out!
Leo walks over to a drawer and pulls out two high powered laser rifle scopes that can shoot a red beam of light hundreds of feet away.
SEAWEED
Will they blind him?
LEO
Not from the distance where you’ll be sitting but they’ll annoy the heck out of him and keep him from getting Jeremy!
Now go to the clubhouse and see if our soon-to-be hero Jeremy is up for the challenge???
Leo scoops the blending neurons into a test tube and snaps a lid into the top. The lid has a plastic ring on it in which Leo threads a string and puts the vile around O-Chi’s neck.
SEAWEED
Shouldn’t I carry that- what if it breaks???
O-Chi
Yes, good idea!
SEAWEED
So when do we meet back up with you Leo, dad?
LEO
Adligo has been busy all afternoon getting word to the yeti on the hills that were completely earthed when the first comet struck. He’s telling them about the window and giving them instructions on how to regain their natural form.
I’m going to go to Scragg's old hideout and to where known yeti criminals lived long ago and give them instructions to stay blended during the comet- I’ll tell them that this comet with reverse the spell if they only stay blended!
SEAWEED
Sneaky, very sneaky- but smart.
LEO
I think it’ll work. Let’s meet in the back of the cemetery at 2:00 AM- that way if the comet comes a little early- we’ll be ready.
O-CHI
OK, see you then, 2 AM.
The boys exit Leo’s lab and pass by Angelique. She flirts with O-Chi and Seaweed gets annoyed.
Angelique
I can go with you tonight O-Chi if you want?
SEAWEED
He doesn’t want! Girls stay inside tonight.
Angelique
Oh really, and I suppose I’m supposed to stay an Ermine for the rest of my life????
SEAWEED
Well, if you insist.
O-CHI
You’d better go with Leo- We’ll be with Jeremy tonight and I think you’ll distract him from his job.
Angelique
Well, OK then- I’ll see ya tonight.
SEAWEED
Later!
FADE TO BLACK.
The Yeti cemetery- 2:00 am
The back of the cemetery is very dark. The boys are waiting for Leo, Angelique and Adligo.
SeAWEED
(whispering)
Do you see ‘em?
O-CHI
(whispering)
I don’t think they’re here yet.
JEREMY
(whispering)
Well I hope they hurry this place is not cool! Not cool! ...at all!
After several minutes of waiting quietly it is obvious that the boys are spooked and the others are bordering on unfashionably late! So in order to pass the time O-Chi starts telling jokes.
O-Chi
(whispering)
Hey. What do you call brown peas?
The two other boys look at him and give the “I don’t know” shrug with their shoulders.
O-Chi (cont’d)
Pooh-Peas! What you you call Yellow peas?
This time the two other boys don’t have time to give the “I don’t know” shrug with their shoulders.
O-Chi (cont’d)
(whispering)
Pee-peas! What do you call ghost bees? ...Boo-bees!
Seaweed and Jeremy are rolling. They are trying to keep their laughing quiet so that the humans won’t see them but the more they try not to laugh the funnier it all gets.
Suddenly the sound of approaching footsteps startle the boys back to reality. It’s a reporter. It’s a human with a camera! The boys try to edge their way out of sight but it’s too late. O-Chi blends himself into a cross-shaped headstone while Seaweed and Jeremy freeze up like statues next to him. The inscription on the headstone reads, “In loving memory of our two pets Jack and Jill.”
Reporter
Awe, look at this one. Somebody really loved their pets to buy such a big headstone.
Awe, and look, little statues of them! Awe, Jill was such a cute little hamster.
Jeremy begins to twitch with unhappiness and Seaweed just wants to bust out laughing. When the humans aren’t looking they make silent words with their mouth trying to read each others lips.
SeAWEED
(In a faint whisper)
She thinks you’re a girl,
JEREMY
(In a faint whisper)
Shut Up!!!!!
SeAWEED
(In a faint whisper)
...a girl hamster!
O-Chi begins to giggle causing the arms of the cross on the headstone to wiggle up and down. The humans go silent and then turn to look.
Reporter
It’s spooky over here, let’s set our cameras up over there!
The humans walk away leaving the coast clear for conversation again!
SeAWEED
(whispering)
That was funnier than O-Chi’s boo-bees.
JEREMY
(whispering)
Don’t even go there! She was obviously not the brightest peg in the Light Bright!
O-Chi
(whispering and serious now)
I’m starting to get
worried about Leo. Maybe we should go to Scragg's ravine now. What if the comet
comes early and we’re still sitting here? Scragg will get free.
JEREMY
(whispering)
I think we should go now too, I’m ready.
Jeremy acts usually manly.
jeremy (cont’d)
Ready to go do a Man’s job!
Seaweed
(whispering)
No. No, we need to wait for my dad.
O-Chi
(whispering)
Seaweed we have to get Scragg or we’re all doomed.
Seaweed
(whispering)
NO! I’m waiting.
O-Chi
(whispering)
Well I’m not! C’mon Jeremy!
Jeremy
(whispering)
Sorry Seaweed, but a Man’s gots to do what a man gots to do!
O-Chi and Jeremy leave Seaweed behind and head for Scragg's ravine on snowboard. The sky is growing colder. Seaweed bravely waits alone in the back of the dark cemetery obsessively checking his watch for the time. It is now almost 2:30 AM. A half dozen sitting, standing and lying positions later for Seaweed checks his watch again and it’s only 2:32 AM. There’s still no sign of Leo, Angelique or Adligo.
Suddenly, the sky lets out a loud bellow. A thunderous roar comes from the heavens as if it is going to just cave in.
Seaweed
(starting off with a whisper and getting louder)
It’s starting. It’s staring. Oh my gosh it’s happening!
Some sort of black smoke fills the already dark sky. The moon disappears behind the black clouds and Seaweed is full of fear.
Seaweed (cont’d)
What am I doing here? My friends need me right now.
The noise is so loud now that it is almost unbearable.
Seaweed (cont’d)
(yelling)
O-Chi, Jeremy- I’ll be right there.
Seaweed can’t find his snowboard so he just starts to run toward Scragg’s ravine when all of a sudden Angelique comes whipping up to Seaweed in her yeti form on a fancy snow mobile.
AnGELIQUE
(trying to yell above the noise)
Get on!
Seaweed
(trying to yell above the noise)
Angelique???
AnGELIQUE
(trying to yell above the noise)
Get on. Yes, it’s me, now get on! Dad needs us!
Seaweed can’t help but notice how grown up his sister has become. At the same time he is concerned for his father and full of adrenaline.
Seaweed
(trying to yell above the noise)
How did you get reshaped before the comet?
AnGELIQUE
(trying to yell above the noise)
I was with dad and Adligo near the Koshi Tappu bluff- small space rocks are flying everywhere up there. It’s crazy! And there’s stardust on them. I got free from the ermine but dad got knocked out. Adligo caught him before he fell over the edge.
Seaweed
(trying to yell above the noise)
He’s unconscious?
AnGELIQUE
(trying to yell above the noise)
Yes, and if we don’t hurry and wake him then he’ll stay a human forever.
Seaweed and Angelique speed off on the snow mobile to save Leo. The sky groans. The clouds seem to burn and cry.
Meanwhile under the same treacherous sky, O-Chi and Jeremy are looking for Scragg from on the top of the ravine wall. Out of no where hundreds of thug walruses start coming over the edge and into the ravine almost too close for comfort to O-Chi and Jeremy!
Jeremy
(trying to yell above the noise)
What the heck?
O-Chi
(trying to yell above the noise)
His body guards! He doesn’t want anything to happen to him... Do you see him yet?
The wind starts to pick up. Trees, rocks and debris of all sorts start to fly.
Jeremy
(trying to yell above the noise)
There he is- I’m goin’ in!
Before O-Chi can even blink he sees Jeremy leap off into the ravine doing his crazy hop! Back and forth, around trees, up and down like a drop of water in a frying pan Jeremy does his crazy hop! The vile of blending neurons is around his neck flopping up down and all around too. Obviously Jeremy didn’t take the vile into account when he started his crazy hop for the vile has now poked him in the eye.
The walruses notice him a few at a time until the whole ravine is a captive audience. Scragg shrieks from the center of it all.
SCragg
(yelling above the noise)
Get him you idiots! Get him. Oh for heavens sake he’s a hamster- get him!
Jeremy is doing the one-eyed crazy hop trying to focus on Scragg but he can’t see him. The poked eye is shut and the other is too watery so he can’t focus. Scragg can’t believe the ridiculous efforts the walruses are making to catch Jeremy. The walruses are blundering fools! For a brief moment Jeremy lands on a tree top and stops for a bow.
JEREMY
Thank you, thank you- no applauds. Just send your thank you’s on $20 bills.
SCragg
(yelling above the noise)
Are you kidding?
Scragg scoots over to a tree and pulls off an enormous branch. As Jeremy blindly comes closer to Scragg once again doing his crazy hop- Whack. Scragg lifts the branch up and Jeremy gets caught on a smaller branch that is way up high. He is hanging by the string of the vile.
O-Chi is fighting the wind and debris but even more he’s fighting the terrible urge he has to blend. In and out of a blended state O-Chi finds the courage to not blend for a moment. He can hear his family and friends below yelling and moaning as they too try to go against their instincts and not blend! O-Chi looks over the cliff at his family then he looks at Jeremy and Scragg and the walruses. Once again the sky screams loudly.
Seaweed and Angelique have made it to Leo and Adligo. They find Adligo in his yeti form holding Leo by the thread of his collar over the side of the cliff.
ADLIGO
(trying to yell above the noise)
I’m so glad you’re here. I’m standing on ice. I can’t get my footing. I can’t lift him!
Seaweed turns the snow mobile around.
Seaweed
(trying to yell above the noise)
Get on it Angelique and go slowly when I tell you.
Angelique follows Seaweeds instructions. She gets on the snow mobile while Seaweed grabs the back of it with one hoof and Adligo's hand with the other.
Seaweed (cont’d)
(yelling)
Go. Go. More, gooo!!!!
It worked. Leo is now safely on solid ground but still unconscious. As the others fuss over him one eye cracks open but he quickly closes it so that they won’t know he’s really conscious.
ADLIGO
(trying to yell above the noise)
King Sleox, wake up. Tassle. Leo!
Seaweed
(trying to yell above the noise)
Dad! Dad, wake up.
Angelique
(trying to yell above the noise)
He’s going to remain a human forever if we don’t wake him.
Adligo
(Alarmed and trying to yell above the noise)
Seaweed! You’re still an ox! You’d better hurry. Go to the cemetery- go you must take your natural form. The comet will hit any second- Go! We’ll wake your dad! Go, go now!
Seaweed tries to start the snow mobile but it seems to be broken.
ADLIGO (cont’d)
(trying to yell above the noise looking at Angelique)
Go help him get it started.
As Angelique goes to help Seaweed for Adligo looks at Leo with a sigh and speaks into Leo’s ear.
ADLIGO (cont’d)
What are ya doin?
But Leo stays quiet.
ADLIGO (cont’d)
I saw your eye open Leo, now what’s going on? ...Leo???
LEO
I’ve had my season to be king.
ADLIGO
But you are the king! There’s no such thing as merry-go-kingdoms you know.
LEO
My son has so little self esteem- he can do it you know. He’s ready. And he won’t get the chance if I am still around. He needs it more than I do.
Anyway, he’ll need a
good royal advisor Addy.
BLAM! The comet has struck! The earth shakes...
Back at Scragg's ravine everybody stumbles from the shock of the blast. O-Chi gets thrown away from the cliff and up against the ravines edge. Jeremy gets shaken loose but the vile is still hanging on the branch. Scragg and the walruses are in a disarray. Stardust poofs up like a mushroom cloud and begins to float to the ground.
O-CHI
30 seconds Jeremy! The window... it’s only 30 seconds!
Realizing that there isn’t enough time for Jeremy to get the vile, get Scragg and pull it all off in 28 seconds for O-Chi takes matters into his own hands. He sees the billboard that The Hill’s made floating and wisping around in the air. He leaps for his snowboard, does a spiral twist in the air and plucks the billboard out of the sky just before it gets covered in stardust. O-Chi then shoots down into the ravine attaching one end of the billboard to a tree branch. He makes another spiral and attaches the other end to a tree branch creating a ceiling just above Scragg's head knowing that Scragg can’t move fast enough to get out from underneath it and into the stardust!
O-CHI
How predictable am I now Jeremy? Hmmn! Paper covers Rock!
JEREMY
Paper covers rock! O-Chi you’re a genius!
Just then the stardust hits the top of the paper. Stardust falls all over the ground. The beautiful opalescent powder is everywhere. Everywhere except under the paper touching Scragg.
Scragg tries as hard as he can to scoot to the stardust. In his moment of weakness he cries out in anger. Thug walruses are bruised and acting like babies all around. They are coughing and whining.
ScRAGG
This can’t be my life!
Suddenly the branch with the vile stuck to it snaps. The vile rolls a few feet from O-Chi and Jeremy where they are standing uphill from Scragg. O-Chi reaches for it.
Seaweed
May I have the honor?
O-Chi steps aside as Seaweed in his yeti form lifts the vile and flicks the blending neurons at Scragg!
Seaweed (cont’d)
That is for depriving me of a father, and a sister, all of these years!
Scragg tries not to blend but he can’t help it. Now just a cold grey boulder sits there. All of the stardust has fallen and the window seems to be closed. The stardust isn’t opalescent anymore. Mom, Dad, Katie, Nacho, Uncle Jack and Butch start coming up the hill in their whole, individual yeti forms.
O-CHI
How long will the neurons keep him blended?
Just as O-Chi asks that question. Three little white bunnies that Scragg was saving for his next meal start to move. They had been camouflaged from sight due to their color but as they move some opalescent powder beneath them starts to shimmer. The bunnies look at each other, start laughing and with handfuls of the opalescent powder for they walk up to Scragg and sprinkle it on him as they dance around his boulder pointing, laughing and chanting “you-rock, you-rock now!”
Fade TO:
SCRAGG'S Ravine- afternoon
Scragg's boulder sits silently and forever still in the ravine basin. The yeti are celebrating their new found freedom and the demise of Scragg. There is food, and there are games galore.
Dad (Ace), the governor, has enlisted the help of several yeti men to help account for all of the Menlung citizens.
DAD
We have 58 yeti accounted for. That leaves 17 more. If they’re alive- we’ll find them...
O-Chi looks on as his father speaks with pride and courage. He sees a side of his father that he’s never seen before. He sees strength and self assuredness. He likes these qualities in his father!
Katie is sitting at a table snuggled up to Uncle Jack. They seem to be very cozy.
KATIE
I knew you liked me Jack. All those nights I used to stare at you- so close but so far. Back in the day- you liked me, didn’t ya? Didn’t ya?
Butch and Nacho are playing pin the tail on the walrus. But it’s not really pin the tail exactly because they are aiming at a pin full of the captured walrus thugs from Scragg's gang.
NACHO
Say, uh, Butch I got one. Did you see that, I got one.
BUTCH
I didn’t see. I never see anything. I miss all the fun!
DAD
(walking with to O-Chi now)
Your mom and I are going to take a vacation son. She wants to go to Spa-Yeti and spend some quality time together. ...Maybe work on having another baby.
O-Chi
Aaarrgh, S-D-U dad!
DAD
S-D-U ???
O-Chi
Uh, Yeah! Sizzling Details Unwelcome!
DAD
Oh, sorry. So tell me about my friend Tassle or should I say Leo. I can’t believe he’s been alive all these years. You know they haven’t found him yet.
O-Chi
They haven’t found him or Angelique and Adligo!
DAD
Well if I know my friend Tassle- he’ll turn up just fine!
O-Chi
I’d better go check on Jeremy. I haven’t seen him since yesterday!
Seaweed is out looking for his father and sister by the Koshi Tappu bluff when up from over a snow drift comes Lipo.
Barking and doing the lima bean dance for Seaweed pets him and then almost faints in shock.
LIPO
Hey Seaweed, it’s me, Adligo! ...Your dad wants to see you. He’s over there, in the trees.
Seaweed looks at Adligo with his body language asking why???
LiPO (cont’d)
What can I say? Now I’m man’s best friend!
Seaweed heads for the trees and greets his father. Leo can’t help but notice how Seaweed has grown into a strong young yeti.
LEO
Oh son. You are a Fine King!
SEAWEED
Dad, I’m sorry, I, You, you’re the king dad! It’s your thrown.
LEO
ZZZ, ZZZ! There will be no more of that talk! It is your thrown, your kingdom and you will lead with a firm but gentle hand. You’re ready! Now go on and get yourself an advisor before your sister gets him.
SEAWEED
Will you come visit?
LEO
(teasing at first)
Seaweed- the yeti code! ....A million rouge walruses won’t keep me away! C’mon Lipo, let’s go home!
O-Chi is in a field walking with his snowboard in hand on the way to the clubhouse when he sees Angelique snowmobiling his direction. It’s love at first sight. Her long flowing hair is blowing behind her. She’s BEAUTIFUL! He goes weak in the knees.
O-CHI
Whoa! ...She’s got Yeti Davis eyes!
Angelique zooms up to O-Chi turning on all of her charm. O-Chi plays hard-to-get not letting on that he feels like a wobbly blob of jello right now.
AnGELIQUE
Where you goin’ Oh-Chee?
O-CHI
I was on my way to find Jeremy. I haven’t seen him since yesterday when the comet hit.
AnGELIQUE
He made it OK, didn’t he? I saw him. He was standing there, unhurt? I think?
O-CHI
Naw, he’s not hurt. We high-fived each other when the bunnies cemented Scragg but I don’t know where he went after that.
I think he might be depressed. Everyone else got their families back. Everyone else has reason to celebrate, but him. The only thing he really wanted was you. And now you’re a yeti, not an ermine.
AnGELIQUE
O-Chi, I have a surprise! Hop on, Let’s go find Jeremy!
They speed off on the snow mobile. The fearless Angelique performs some stunts that are even too extreme for the X-Games. It’s an adrenaline rush that O-Chi could get used to!
They pull up to the clubhouse and walk inside. There they find Jeremy eating bon bons and watching soap operas.
Jeremy
Oh, hello.
AnGELIQUE
Jeremy I have somewhere I want to take you.
Jeremy
I’m sorry Angelique but it’s just not going to work out between us. I want 48 rodent children- not 48 giant neuro-blending jumping beans.
AnGELIQUE
Well I’m sorry you feel that way, but will you come with me, with us, anyway.
O-CHI
C’mon Jeremy, what do you have to lose?
Jeremy
You know you’re right! I HAVE NOTHING LEFT TO LOSE. Rub it in why don’t ya?
AnGELIQUE
C’mon sour face!
Angelique gets tired of Jeremy whining so she scoops him up and tells him to hang on as she and O-Chi speed off. In minutes they are in the park where the first comet hit. Angelique pulls up to a big tree.
Jeremy
Nice tree. Is this the big surprise?
AnGELIQUE
Yes.
Jeremy
Well thank you very much. Great surprise.
Angelique
You see that big root right there?
Jeremy
Yes I see that big root right there. Geez, You really have a thing for roots, don’t ya?
Angelique
Push it aside.
JEREMY
(while pushing the root aside)
I’ll get to the root of this mystery.
Jeremy pushes the root aside and to his wonderment finds a whole world behind it. Jeremy looks around and suddenly sees a gorgeous set of Jerboa Mouse eyes checking him out.
Jeremy
Hallelujah, Hall-eh-luuuu-ya! ...Hello! Do you have a husband? Do you want one?
Jerboa Female
No husband. But I have 48 children that need a father!
Jeremy puts his arm around the lady and looks at the camera with a BIG cheesy smile! He reaches for a vertical blind stick and the scene goes black as vertical blinds close off the screen.
FADE TO BLACK.
King Seaweeds Induction
The camera is in the distance as it pans in on Seaweed’s induction to the yeti thrown. Angelique is sitting to the left of the King and her chair has a sign above it that reads, “Princess.” O-Chi is on the right and his chair reads “Royal God-Son & Advisor.” Everyone is there... Mom and Dad, Katie and Uncle Jack, Nacho, Butch, Jeremy- his wife and their 48 children, the bunnies...
On an end note the camera zeroes in on Seaweeds crowned head! He has a big smile and yup, you guessed it, a big wachoonoed eyebrow that is the focal point of attention as Jeremy sits in the audience pointing the red laser beam at it! The camera finds Jeremy with his smiling face and matching wachoonoed eyebrow.
Jeremy
I’ve been dying to use this thing! ...Paybacks are a booger!
FADE OUT TO End CREDITS.